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Dick Johnson is Dead (Blu-ray)

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This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson) is a valentine to the director’s beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun 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 pair’s tender but increasingly fragile bond. Tackling taboo questions of aging, mortality, and grief with subversive humour and surprising grace, Dick Johnson Is Dead is ultimately a triumphant celebration of life, and of the gentle, funny, unforgettable man at its centre. Long live Dick Johnson.

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THE CRITERION COLLECTION

Extras
  • 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 Pete Horner
  • New programme featuring Johnson in conversation with fellow filmmakers about redefining what a documentary can be
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • English descriptive audio
  • PLUS: An essay by author So Mayer
Additional Information
More Information
SKU 5050629553031
Catalogue Number CC3327BDUK
Product contents 1 disc
Year 2020
Director Kirsten Johnson
Format Blu-Ray
Publisher(s) THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Countries USA
Colour Colour
Subtitles English Hard of Hearing
Language(s) English
Running time 89 min
Blu-ray region B
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