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My Dinner with Andre (Criterion Collection)

New Yorker Films (1981)

715515146814

7.7

29,066

Comedy | Drama

USA | English | Color | 01:50

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Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory share life stories and anecdotes over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant.

Cast

	Andre Gregory	Andre Gregory
	Wallace Shawn	Wallace Shawn
	Jean Lenauer	Waiter
	Roy Butler	Bartender

Crew View all

Director	Louis Malle
Writer	Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory
Producer	Dave Franke, George W. George, Beverly Karp, Keith W. Rouse
Musician	Allen Shawn
Photography	Jeri Sopanen

Trailer

Edition details

Edition	The Criterion Collection
Packaging	Keep Case
Nr Discs	1
Screen Ratios	Widescreen (1.66:1)
Audio Tracks	LPCM Mono [English]
Subtitles	English (SDH)
Distributor	The Criterion Collection
Layers	Single side, Dual layer
Regions	Region A

Personal

Quantity	1
Index	2722
Added Date	Aug 09, 2024 21:33:40
Modified Date	Jun 23, 2025 22:48:35

Notes

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.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interview from 2009 with actor-writers André 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 Shawn interviews director Louis Malle
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin and the prefaces written by Gregory and Shawn for the 1981 publication of the film’s screenplay

New cover by Neil Kellerhouse