My dinner with André /

My dinner with André /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:Special ed., widescreen.
Imprint:[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2009.
Description:2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 p. ; 18 cm).
Language:English
Series:The Criterion collection ; 479
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 479.
Subject:
Male friendship -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Conversation -- Drama.
Dinners and dining -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Actors -- United States -- Drama.
Theatrical producers and directors -- United States -- Drama.
Actors.
Conversation.
Dinners and dining.
Male friendship.
Theatrical producers and directors.
New York (State) -- New York.
United States.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Format: DVD Video E-Resource
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7993501
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other title:My dinner with Louis.
Other uniform titles:George, George W., 1920-2007.
White, Michael, 1936-
Sopanen, Jeri.
Karp, Beverly, 1930-2003.
Gregory, André.
Shawn, Wallace.
Malle, Louis, 1932-1995
Shawn, Allen.
Taubin, Amy. Long, strange, trips.
Arena (Television program)
Other authors / contributors:Nouvelles éditions de films (Firm)
André Company.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
ISBN:9781604651560
1604651563
Notes: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.
Director of photography, Jeri Sopanen ; production designer, David Mitchell ; editor, Suzanne Baron ; music, Allen Shawn ; costume designer, Jeffrey Ullman ; set decorator, Douglas Kraner ; art director, Stephen McCabe.
André Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation enhanced for (16:9) televisions; Dolby Digital mono.
In English with optional English subtitles.
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.
Standard no.:715515046114
Publisher's no.:CC1814D Criterion Collection
Review by Library Journal Review

Playing variations on themselves, playwright and actor Wallace Shawn and theater director Andre Gregory meet over dinner to discuss art, philosophy, love, and other weighty matters. Essentially a talking-heads picture offering little cinematic variation, Louis Malle's surprise art-house hit fascinates but still drags as it unfolds in real time. In separate interviews, the leads provide interesting tidbits on making Dinner, while Shawn engages the late Malle in a revealing older interview. This is one entree with intellectual sustenance. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Library Journal Review

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