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| Director: | Louis Malle |
| Studio: | Criterion Collection |
| Producer: | Keith W. Rouse |
| Writer: | Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn |
| Rated: | Unrated |
| Date Added: | 2014-12-18 |
| UPC: | 715515046114 |
| Price: | $39.95 |
| Awards: | 2 wins |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Release: | 2009-06-01 |
| IMDb: | 0082783 |
| Location: | 1424 |
| Duration: | 110 |
| Picture Format: | Widescreen |
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.66:1 |
| Sound: | Dolby Digital 1.0 |
| Languages: | English |
| Features: | New, restored high-definition digital transfer
New video 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
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Amy Taubin and the prefaces written by Gregory and Shawn for the published screenplay |
Summary: In Louis Malle’s captivating and philosophical My Dinner with André, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director André Gregory at an Upper West Side restaurant, and the two proceed into an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional on love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York–honed personas, Shawn and Gregory, who also wrote the screenplay, dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto, and Malle captures it all with a delicate, artful detachment. A fascinating freeze-frame of cosmopolitan culture, My Dinner with André remains a unique work in cinema history.
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My Dinner with Andre
(2009)