Dick Johnson is dead

Blu-ray 2020

"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 colorfull...

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Dementia Patients Care

Fathers and daughters

Johnson, Charles Richard, 1932-

Johnson, Kirsten (Kirsten Boyd)

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Documentary films Feature films Nonfiction films Video recordings for people with visual disabilities Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1111 The Criterion collection The Criterion collection ; 1111

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ISBN:

9781681439099

Edition:

Director-approved Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
digital optical
video file Blu-ray video

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Notes:

2K digital master
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2020
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
Wide screen (1.78:1)
Director of photography, Kirsten Johnson ; editor, Nels Bangerter ; music, Syzygys
Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson
Optional English descriptive track and English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
System requirements: Blu-ray player ; will not play on standard DVD players
Blu-ray, region A; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English dialogue

LCCN:

be2021073327

Control Number:

3122884

UPC:

715515267816

Other Authors:

Bangerter, Nels, 1978- screenwriter, editor of moving image work
Big Mouth Productions, production company
Chevigny, Katy, film producer
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Johnson, Charles Richard, 1932- on-screen participant
Johnson, Kirsten (Kirsten Boyd), film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography, on-screen participant
Mayer, So, 1978- writer of supplementary textual material
Ness, Marilyn, film producer
Netflix (Firm), production company
Shimizu, Hitomi, composer

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