My dinner with André

DVD 2009

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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Explore Topics & Themes:

Conversation Drama

Dinners and dining New York (State) New York Drama

Male friendship New York (State) New York Drama

Theatrical producers and directors United States Drama

More in this Genre:

Drama Feature films Fiction films Video recordings

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 479 The Criterion collection

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ISBN:

9781604651560

Edition:

Special edition, widescreen edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages ; 18 cm)
polychrome
digital
optical
mono
Dolby
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: PG

Other Title:

Arena (Television program)
My dinner with Louis

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

Contents:

Disc 1. The film
Disc 2. The supplements

Control Number:

526033

UPC:

715515046114

Other Authors:

André Company
Criterion Collection (Firm)
George, George W., 1920-2007
Gregory, André
Karp, Beverly, 1930-2003
Malle, Louis, 1932-1995
Nouvelles éditions de films (Firm)
Shawn, Allen
Shawn, Wallace
Sopanen, Jeri
Taubin, Amy. Long, strange, trips
White, Michael (Producer)

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