André Gregory & Wallace Shawn: 3 Films

DVDboxed-set

Criterion Collection

2015-06-16 · United States

Release: 1

5 discs

Collection contents

Type: boxed-set

Interview from 2009 with actor-writers André Gregory and Wallace Shawn about My Dinner with André, conducted by their friend the filmmaker Noah Baumbach
“My Dinner with Louis,” a 1982 episode of the BBC program Arena in which Shawn interviews director Louis Malle
Documentary from 2012 about Vanya on 42nd Street, featuring interviews with Gregory; actors Lynn Cohen, George Gaynes, Julianne Moore, Larry Pine, Shawn, and Brooke Smith; and producer Fred Berner
New interviews about A Master Builder with Gregory, Shawn, director Jonathan Demme, and actors Julie Hagerty and Lisa Joyce
New program featuring Gregory, Shawn, and their friend the author Fran Lebowitz in conversation
Trailers for Vanya on 42nd Street and A Master Builder
PLUS: Essays on the films by critics Amy Taubin, Steve Vineberg, and Michael Sragow; the prefaces written by Gregory and Shawn for the 1981 publication of My Dinner with André’s screenplay; and a 1994 report by Taubin from the set of Vanya on 42nd Street

High-definition digital restoration of My Dinner with André; restored high-definition digital transfer of Vanya on 42nd Street, supervised by director of photography Declan Quinn; and high-definition digital master of A Master Builder, supervised by Quinn
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
New cover by F. Ron Miller