My Dinner With André

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Call Number: DVD Drama My
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

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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.
Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.
André Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler.
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.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation enhanced for (16:9) televisions; Dolby Digital mono.
Contents: Long, strange, trips.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Food for thought submitted by PBS on June 20, 2011, 9:22am It is amazing how compelling a movie can be that consists of two friends talking over dinner. The conversation starts with acting but soon bridges to issues of living a modern life. The tension and pacing (which does exist) are accomplished entirely by the dialogue. This movie will give art lovers many things to ponder. Watch when you are not tired, and buy the action figures!

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