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Title Statement | Dick Johnson is dead [DVD] / produced by Katy Chevigny, Kirsten Johnson, Marilyn Ness ; written by Kirsten Johnson, Nels Bangerter ; directed by Kirsten Johnson. |
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Series | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) |
Additional Contributors | Johnson, Kirsten(Kirsten Boyd) |
Publication | ©2022[New York]: Criterion Collection,[2022] |
Edition | DVD edition. |
Extent of Item | 1 videodisc (89 min.) |
ISBN | 9781681439105 (v.r.) 1681439107 (v.r.) |
Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 715515267915 |
Other Number | 4407799 |
General Notes | Booklet inserted in container. Special features: New 2K digital master, approved by director Kirsten Johnson ; new audio commentary featuring Johnson, cowriter and editor Nels Bangerter, and documentary sound recordist Judy Karp; new conversation among Johnson and her fellow producers Katy Chevigny and Marilyn Ness and coproducer Maureen A. Ryan ; new interview with sound designer Peter Horner ; new program featuring Johnson in conversation with fellow filmmakers about redefining what a documentary can be ; trailer ; PLUS: an essay by author So Mayer. Originally produced as a documentary film for Netflix in 2020. DVD. |
Languages | English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.English audio description track. |
System Details | DVD, Dolby 5.1 surround. |
Terms of Use | For home use only. |
Summary | "This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the directors beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she is beginning to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative tableaux interwoven with raw vérité footage capturing the pairs tender but increasingly fragile bond. Tackling taboo questions of aging, mortality, and grief with subversive humor and surprising grace, Dick Johnson Is Dead is ultimately a triumphant celebration of life, and of the gentle, funny, unforgettable man at its center. Long live Dick Johnson."--Container. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Fathers and daughters |
Dementia--Patients--Family relationships | |
Dementia--Patients--Care | |
By Name | Johnson, Kirsten(Kirsten Boyd) |
Johnson, Charles Richard | |
By Genre | Films for people with visual disabilities |
Films for the hearing impaired | |
Documentary films | |
Biographical films |