| Description |
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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surround rdacpc |
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DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 |
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video file rdaft |
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Blu-ray |
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region A rdare |
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Documentary films lcgft |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 1111.
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| System Details |
Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.78:1 aspect ratio); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. |
| Language |
English dialogue; English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
| Credits |
Editor, Nels Bangerter ; music, Syzygys. |
| Note |
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2020. |
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Wide screen (1.78:1). |
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Special features: 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. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: PG-13. |
| Summary |
"This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson 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 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. |
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Johnson, Charles Richard.
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Johnson, Kirsten (Kirsten Boyd)
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Dementia -- Patients -- Care -- Videodiscs.
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Fathers and daughters -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
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Blu-ray discs.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Kirsten (Kirsten Boyd), film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography.
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Chevigny, Katy, film producer.
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Ness, Marilyn, film producer.
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Bangerter, Nels, 1978- screenwriter.
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Netflix (Firm), production company.
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Big Mouth Productions, production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781681439099 |
| Standard No. |
715515267816 |
| Music No. |
CC3327BD The Criterion Collection |
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