Dick Johnson is dead / a Netflix original documentary ; a Big Mouth Productions film ; filmed, produced and directed by Kirsten Johnson ; producers, Katy Chevigny, Marilyn Ness ; written by Nels Bangerter & Kirsten Johnson.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 17 cm)
Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson. Originally produced as a documentary film in 2020. Wide screen (1.78:1). 2K digital master. Special features: new audio commentary featuring Johnson, cowriter and editor Nels Bangerter, and documentary sound recordist Judy Karp; new conversation among Johnson and her fellow producers Katy Chevigny and Marilyn Ness and coproducer Maureen A. Ryan; new interview with sound designer Peter Horner; new program featuring Johnson in conversation with fellow filmmakers about redefining what a documentary can be; trailer. Accompanied by folded sheet (12 pages) containing essay by author So Mayer.
Summary:
"This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative tableaux interwoven with raw vérité footage capturing the pair's tender but increasingly fragile bond. Tackling taboo questions of aging, mortality, and grief with subversive humor and surprising grace, Dick Johnson is Dead is ultimately a triumphant celebration of life, and of the gentle, funny, unforgettable man at its center. Long live Dick Johnson"--Container.
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