![]() ![]() The Latino kid in "Chop Shop," surviving in a vast auto parts bazaar in the shadow of Shea Stadium. There is the Pakistani in "Man Push Cart," who operates a coffee-and-bagel wagon in Manhattan. They are new Americans, climbing the lower rungs of the economic ladder. But Bahrani never refers to his characters as immigrants. The Old West, too, was a land of immigrants, many of them speaking no English. Well, he couldn't very well be named Huckleberry. ![]() His fourth film, now in preparation, will be a Western. His subjects so far have been immigrants working hard to make a living in America. ![]() His films pay great attention to ordinary lives that are not so ordinary at all. After three films, each a master work, he has established himself as a gifted, confident filmmaker with ideas that involve who and where we are at this time. Ramin Bahrani is the new great American director. ![]()
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