My Dinner With Andre - Louis Malle

directed by Louis Malle
USA 1981

Bring two New York intellectuals together and they'll beat each other's ears off swapping stories about their psychoanalysts. Here Malle celebrates just such an encounter, recreated by the original participants: a sad, never-quite-made-it playwright (Shawn) and a brilliantly successful director (Gregory) who dropped out to 'find himself' in a quest ranging from Grotowski in Poland to Tibet, the Sahara and remoter Scotland. Just two people talking, shot mostly in close-up. Riveting, exhilarating stuff.

Excerpt from Time Out review located HERE

Poster

Theatrical Release: 11 October 1981

Reviews More Reviews DVD Reviews

DVD Review: Fox Lorber - Region 1 - NTSC

Big thanks to Daniel Mott for the Review!

DVD Box Cover		CLICK to order from:
Distribution	Fox Lorber Region 1 - NTSC
Runtime	1:50:56
Video	1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 5.29 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s
	NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
Bitrate
Audio	English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Subtitles	None
Features	Release Information: Studio: Fox Lorber Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen - 1.33:1 Edition Details: • Filmographies & Awards (text screens) DVD Release Date: 25 August 1998 Keep-Case Chapters 12

Comments

NOTE: This is often regarded my DVD-ophiles as the worst commercial transfer ever put to digital. Unfortunately, it is also the only release on DVD of this film and it continues to fetch prices above $100 in online auctions.

Matt Lipson from Criterion has confirmed that they own the rights and are planning to release it in the near future.

- Gary Tooze

***

An early and out of print DVD from Fox Lorber. The transfer is lackluster with chroma errors, color fluctuation and a green tinge, lots of damage during reel changes and dust and scratches all over. There's an irritating film error in chapters 7-8 (a white blob and a hair moving around, see last capture). The picture is pretty soft but at least it's progressively transferred. This DVD is very pricey at Amazon Marketplace and I certainly don't think it's worth >$100 but the film is great and I do hope someone will re-release it to DVD in the future. Meanwhile, I don't think there's much difference between a VHS and this DVD.

- Daniel Mott

DVD Menus

Screen Captures

Print damage and hair...