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Dick Johnson is dead / produced by Katy Chevigny, Kirsten Johnson, Marilyn Ness ; written by Kirsten Johnson, Nels Bangerter ; directed by Kirsten Johnson.

[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2022]

1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.

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A playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative tableaux interwoven with raw vřit ̌footage capturing the pair's tender but increasingly fragile bond. Tackling taboo questions of aging, mortality, and grief with subversive humor and surprising grace, this is ultimately a triumphant celebration of life and the gentle, funny, unforgettable man at its center. Long live Dick Johnson.

MPAA rating: PG-13.

Criterion collection ; 1111

Criterion collection ; 1111.

Johnson, Charles Richard.

Johnson, Kirsten (Kirsten Boyd)

Dementia -- Patients -- Care.

Fathers and daughters.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

Johnson, Kirsten (Kirsten Boyd), film director.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2020.

Wide screen (1.78:1).

Special features: new audio commentary featuring Johnson, cowriter and editor Nels Bangerter, and documentary sound recordist Judy Karp; new conversation among Johnson and her fellow producers Katy Chevigny and Marilyn Ness and coproducer Maureen A. Ryan; new interview with sound designer Peter Horner; new program featuring Johnson in conversation with fellow filmmakers about redefining what a documentary can be; trailer.

DVD, NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

English dialogue; English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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