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Directed by: Louis Malle
In this captivating and philosophical film directed by Louis Malle, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend the theater director André Gregory at a restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side, and the pair proceed through an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional about love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York–honed personas, Shawn and Gregory, who also cowrote 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.
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Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Booklet
- Interview from 2009 with actor-writers Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, conducted by their friend the filmmaker Noah Baumbach
- “My Dinner with Louis,” a 1982 episode of the BBC program Arena in which Wallace Shawn interviews director Louis Malle
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Amy Taubin and the prefaces written by Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn for the 1981 publication of the film’s screenplay
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Release Credits
Artwork: Neil Kellerhouse
Producer: Kate Elmore
Release Notes on Restoration
My Dinner with Andre
My Dinner with André is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. On standard 4:3 televisions, the image will appear letterboxed. On standard and widescreen televisions, black bars may also be visible on the left and right to maintain the proper screen format. This digital transfer was created in 2K resolution on a ARRISCAN film scanner from the original 16mm A/B negative. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, jitter, and flicker were manually removed using DaVinci’s Revival, MTI’s DRS, and Pixel Farm’s PFClean, while Digital Vision’s DVNR was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the original 16mm magnetic tracks. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD, AudioCube’s integrated workstation, and iZotope RX 4.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the original 16mm magnetic tracks. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD, AudioCube’s integrated workstation, and iZotope RX 4.