My dinner with André [videorecording] / presented by George W. George in association with Michael White ; produced by George W. George, Beverly Karp ; screenplay by Wallace Shawn, André Gregory ; directed by Louis Malle ; [Nouvelles Editions de Films ; The Andre Company, L.P.].
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Special ed., widescreen.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 p. ; 18 cm).
André Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler. Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. Booklet features an essay "Long, strange, trips" by critic Amy Taubin and prefaces written by Gregory and Shawn for the published screenplay Special features: Disc 2. Interviews with actors André Gregory and Wallace Shawn by filmmaker and friend Noah Baumbach; "My dinner with Louis:" an episode from the BBC program Arena, in which Shawn interviews director Louis Malle.
Contents:
Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.
Summary:
An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York-honed personas, the two dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto. All captured in a delicate, but artful detachment.
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