Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

My dinner with André [videorecording] / presented by George W. George in association with Michael White ; produced by George W. George, Beverly Karp ; screenplay by Wallace Shawn, André Gregory ; directed by Louis Malle ; [Nouvelles Editions de Films ; The Andre Company, L.P.].

Edition:

DVD format.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2009.

Description:

2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 479

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.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

George, George W., 1920-2007.

White, Michael.

Sopanen, Jeri.

Karp, Beverly, 1930-2003.

Gregory, André.

Shawn, Wallace.

Malle, Louis, 1932-1995.

Shawn, Allen.

Taubin, Amy. Long, strange, trips.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Other Title:

Arena (Television program)

My dinner with Louis.

Notes:

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.

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.

André Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation enhanced for (16:9) televisions; Dolby Digital mono.

In English with optional English subtitles.

Contents:

Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.

ISBN:

9781604651560

1604651563

9781604651560

1604651563

Publisher Number:

CC1814D

Other Number:

1014281305

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

700192

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE My dinne

Medium:

[videorecording]