  My Dinner With Andre (1981) (Dvd)My Dinner With Andre (1981) (Dvd)
UPC Number: 715515046114
Actors: Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer, Wallace Shawn, Roy Butler
Directors: Louis Malle
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC
Language: English
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Criterion
Release date: June 23, 2009
Run time: 110 minutes
Product Description
In Louis Malle’s captivating and philosophical My Dinner with Andr�, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director Andr� 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 Andr� remains a unique work in cinema history. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: • New, restored high-definition digital transfer • New video interviews with actors Andr� 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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