CRITERION COLLECTION
DELTA, THE (1996)
DELTA, THE (1996)
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The distance between two men is…
The complexities of race, class, and sexuality collide within a Memphis community in the strikingly raw debut feature from director Ira Sachs. With neorealist immediacy, The Delta tells what at first appears to be a simple love story: two young men—Lincoln (Shayne Gray), a closeted white teenager, and Minh (Thang Chan), a Black Vietnamese immigrant—meet at a cruising spot and embark on a nighttime journey by boat down the Mississippi River. But soon, imbalances of power and privilege emerge between them, as the film develops into a devastating vision of lost, wounded souls reaching out in the dark for human connection.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION, supervised and approved by director Ira Sachs, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2001 featuring Sachs
- New interview with Sachs, conducted by film critic Keith Uhlich
- Two short films by Sachs: Vaudeville (1991) and Lady (1993)
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author and film curator Michael Koresky
2026-05-12
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