My Dinner with Andre (The Criterion Collection)
by Louis Malle
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Actor: Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler, Wallace ShawnDirector: Louis Malle
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Andre Gregory
Writer: Wallace Shawn
Cinematographer: Jeri Sopanen
Editor: Suzanne Baron
Producer: Beverly Karp
Producer: Dave Franke
Producer: George W. George
Producer: Keith W. Rouse
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-06-23
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Summary of My Dinner with Andre (The Criterion Collection)
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 Manhattan 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.SPECIAL EDITION 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 for the printed screenplay by Gregory and Shawn
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The sheer audacity of My Dinner with Andre drew throngs of curious filmgoers who made the film the most talked-about art-house hit of 1981. After all, who'd ever heard of a movie consisting of nearly two hours of nonstop dinner conversation? Ah ... but this isn't just any conversation--it's the kind of mesmerizing, soul-searching, life-affirming exploration that we feel privileged to listen to, and with unobtrusive style, director Louis Malle invites us to eavesdrop to our hearts' and minds' content. The film was written by two New Yorkers at the dinner table, noted playwright-actor Wallace Shawn and well-known stage director Andre Gregory, who essentially play themselves. They taped their conversations for several weeks and Shawn gradually shaped them into a scripted conversation, but you'd never know it by watching the movie. The talk flows and flows until you're captivated by Gregory's stories of world travel and spiritual quests in Poland, India, Tibet, the Sahara desert... the tales of a soul-searcher who'd dropped out of the theater world to rediscover his zest for living. Shawn plays the skeptic, the voice of reason, his feet on the ground but his own mind willing to soar. The cumulative effect of this conversation is almost hypnotic, and certainly plays into our eternal appetite for storytelling. Both primal and sophisticated, witty and profound, My Dinner With Andre is a film that can be savored over time, offering new revelations with each viewing as the listener-viewer develops his or her own appreciation of life's great mysteries. --Jeff Shannon
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