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My dinner with André

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...

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Corporate Author: Nouvelles éditions de films (Firm)
Other Authors: George, George W., 1920-2007 (Producer), White, Michael, 1936-2016 (Producer), Sopanen, Jeri (director of photography.), Karp, Beverly, 1930-2003 (Producer), Gregory, André (Screenwriter, Actor, interviewee (expression),), Shawn, Wallace (Screenwriter, Actor, interviewee (expression),), Malle, Louis, 1932-1995 (Director, interviewee (expression)), Shawn, Allen (composer (expression)), Taubin, Amy (Writer of added commentary)
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
Published: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, ©2009.
Edition:Special ed.
Series:Criterion collection ; 479.
Subjects:
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.
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Fiction films.
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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.
Item Description:Originally produced 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.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages ; 18 cm).
Format:DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation enhanced for (16:9) televisions; Dolby Digital mono.
Production Credits: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.
ISBN:9781604651560
1604651563

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