My Dinner With Andre (Criterion) DVD

• 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono (English)
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• New video interviews with actors André Gregory and Wallace Shawn by filmmaker and friend Noah Baumbach
• My Dinner With Louis an episode from the BBC program Arena, in which Shawn interviews director Louis Malle
• A booklet featuring an essay written by critic Amy Taubin and the preface written by Gregory and Shawn for the published screenplay

Director: Louis Malle
Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory

In Louis Malle's captivating and philosophical My Dinner With Andre, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director Andre Gregory at an Manhattan restaurant, and the two proceed into an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional on love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York-honed personas, Shawn and Gregory, who also wrote 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 Andre remains a unique work in cinema history.