Vanya on 42nd Street
Louis Malle
Vanya on 42nd Street [videorecording] = Louis Malle - USA Channel Four Films Mayfair Entertainment The Vanya Company 1994 - 1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 in. - The Criterion Collection Vol. 599 .
Special features include:
- Documentary featuring interviews with Andre Gregory, the play's director; actors Lynn Cohen, George Gaynes, Julianne Moore, Larry Pine, Wallace Shawn and Brooke Smith and producer Fred Berner
From case cover:
In the early nineties, theater director Andre Gergory mounted a series of spare, private performances of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in a crumbling Manhattan playhouse. This experiment in pure theater--featuring a remarkable cast of actors, including Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Brooke Smith, and George Gaynes--would have been lost to time has it not been captured on film, with subtle cinematic brilliance, by Louis Malle. Vanya on 42nd Street is as memorable and emotional a screen version of Chekhov's masterpiece as one could ever hope to see. This film, which turned out to be Malle's last, is a tribute to the playwright's devastating work as well as to the creative process itself.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; NTSC; Regions 1; 1.66:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
English audio.
PN1997 / .V369 1994
Vanya on 42nd Street [videorecording] = Louis Malle - USA Channel Four Films Mayfair Entertainment The Vanya Company 1994 - 1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 in. - The Criterion Collection Vol. 599 .
Special features include:
- Documentary featuring interviews with Andre Gregory, the play's director; actors Lynn Cohen, George Gaynes, Julianne Moore, Larry Pine, Wallace Shawn and Brooke Smith and producer Fred Berner
From case cover:
In the early nineties, theater director Andre Gergory mounted a series of spare, private performances of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in a crumbling Manhattan playhouse. This experiment in pure theater--featuring a remarkable cast of actors, including Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Brooke Smith, and George Gaynes--would have been lost to time has it not been captured on film, with subtle cinematic brilliance, by Louis Malle. Vanya on 42nd Street is as memorable and emotional a screen version of Chekhov's masterpiece as one could ever hope to see. This film, which turned out to be Malle's last, is a tribute to the playwright's devastating work as well as to the creative process itself.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; NTSC; Regions 1; 1.66:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
English audio.
PN1997 / .V369 1994