Double Feature
My Dinner with Andre
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. (Janus Films)
- Director
- Louis Malle
- Writer
- Screenplay by Wallace Shawn & Andre Gregory
- Starring
- Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn
- Year
- 1981
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 111 minutes
Vanya on 42nd Street
The collaborators of the acclaimed My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle, Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn) re-team for this update of Anton Checkhov’s Uncle Vanya, a timeless drama of faith, hope and the redemptive powers of love. Shawn and co-star Julianne Moore head the extraordinary ensemble cast in playwright David Mamet’s striking new adaptation of Checkhov’s drama of people trapped between the harsh reality of their lives and the longings of their hearts. Buffeted by a jaunty jazz score from Grammy nominee Joshua Redman, “this live-wire Vanya, freshly observed for the ‘90s is fiercely funny, touching and vital!” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Director
- Louis Malle
- Writer
- From André Gregory's "Vanya" based on Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" adapted by David Mamet
- Starring
- Larry Pine, Brooke Smith, Wallace Shawn, André Gregory, Julianne Moore
- Year
- 1994
- Country
- UK/USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 119 minutes