@@otrkid7869 oh wow bet he didn't know that before. I think we still live in stone edge era except you that is. You're so amazing you're so knowledgeable, you know so much wow. I didn't even knew that a movie named " my dinner with Andre" existed. Thanks a lot for sharing some of your wisdom with us caveman. Fucking oversmart no sense of humour having, Mr. thinks he knows everything ass motherfucker. Fuck you and your shitty piece of information that you should have kept to yourself . Where's your fucking humor, left it in your mother's womb? Can't you see he's clearly trying to be funny using some unoriginal joke ,unintelligent not funny comment???? He knows about the fucking film you forest gump acting motherfucker. Man's clearly trynna be funny , trynna get attention, likes and replies, he's trynna feel good presenting himself as a funny and intelligent guy cuz he ain't got no life outside of this fucking not real community and he ain't got no confidence trying to seek validation in RUclips comment sections and that's what you are doing too.
That struck me as oddly true, also. The child’s brain is so malleable, and therefore so vulnerable to any and all surroundings, that it often absorbs others’ opinions just as a base for how opinions work. You may hear a parent complain that JAWS is a dud because you don’t see the shark until the end, and even then, only in glimpses. That thought may stick with you, and you may not be able to appreciate or even identify how delaying the reveal of the shark builds suspense until much later in life just from one comment.
Explains a lot about why they absolutely have to stop the transgender fad which is destroying young people's lives in ways that even drugs couldn't do. You can got off most drugs if you're motivated but once you spay or neuter yourself, that's usually it. Young people don't know what they want or like, they just get enthused based on what others are thinking or doing or saying....
The Picks & Mentions: Weekend (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard L'Eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni Red Desert (1964) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni [14 frames in this movie that Antonioni can't stand] Eating Raoul (1982) dir. Paul Bartel My Dinner With Andre (1981) dir. Louis Malle [their own movie] Claude Chabrol movies [If Wallace Shawn had to watch 10 films by one person] The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) dir. Powell & Pressburger
I like their picks a lot. There are about 2,800 frames in The Passenger I can't stand, though overall I enjoy Antonioni. Adding a 2-minute snuff film (real execution footage) to a major-release feature starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider, though? Really bad idea.
So can I! I remember watching "My Dinner With Andre" once, and the atmosphere took me back to an afternoon that I spent talking with a friend who talked his way through Asimov's Sci-Fi... The only thing missing was a table decked with wine and delicacies (as in Andre's), to complement the sojourn through his collection of Agatha Christie novels.
A breath of fresh air in a polluted world. I send these clips off to my teens & other young ones. When they tell me they enjoyed it I get an enormous thrill. Sharing wisdom, knowledge, respect & delving into the arts is how we’ll be saved. Sharing with the young is our duty & when it impacts it’s a wonderful event.
You'd think that because of slow pace in their voices and the long pauses between forming their next phrase that this video would be monotonous and therefore boring. But no. Quite the opposite. I was distraught that the video ended so quickly. More please. :-(
Questions and mentioned films: 0:16 - "Do you go to the movies often?" 0:27 - "Did you like westerns or not?" 1:08 - *WEEKEND* _dir. Jean-Luc Godard_ (1967) 2:14 - *L’ECLISSE* _dir. Michelangelo Antonioni_ (1962) [mention] *RED DESERT* _dir. Michelangelo Antonioni_ (1964) 4:29 - *EATING RAOUL* _dir. Paul Bartel_ (1982) [mention] *MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ* _dir. Louis Malle_ (1981) 4:58 - "Do you have a nationality of films you prefer to watch?" 5:51 - *THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP* _dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger_ (1943)
Wallace's description of seeing Godard's Weekend is much the same as when I saw Godard's Alphaville: HATED it and then the next couple days discovered that I couldn't stop thinking about it, quickly realizing it had suddenly become one of my all time favorite films!
It breaks my heart that any man can feel such regret over a work of art. It comforts me to know that I'm not alone in that feeling of actually feeling alone.
That would be great but I doubt they'd talk about movies much apart from using them to try and one-up eachother by doing impressions of the actors in them.
I just saw “My Dinner With Andre,” I was pleasantly surprised at how engaging these two were. I didn’t think a movie taking place in one setting and featuring two people talking would be interesting for too long. But it’s relevant me gave me a lot to think about Andre especially is a great storyteller, I could most visualize his adventures in the Polish forest
Saw the film " My dinner with Andre"....I have to say its changed my life ...so much information that we can apply to modern life & its stresses .....too bad I did not see this when I was younger....but I will ask my son to watch it ...a Masterpiece thanks to you both..love .
I like to imagine there's an armed goon standing by the door who takes away the guests picks and puts them back on the shelves. they stumble out into the parking lot mussed up and muttering, "so that's what all the nda forms were about..."
Hey, just in case it ever makes it back to either Wallace or Andre, or both, that simple conversation so many years ago echoes through time in the best of ways. It lets us all know this exact conversation, revelation, whatever, has been happening over and over for a very long time, and maybe we'll get to a point where we all have this sort of introspection and realization that this is how so many of us are just floating through our existence. Thank you both
When Andre was telling the Red Desert screening story, it seemed so similar to his recollection about his sojourn in a Polish forest. Love these two men.
With all the anger over the recent placing of Chantal Ackerman's classic being named the #1 movie of all-time, I almost immediately wondered if the same people who are enraged had ever seen My Dinner With Andre. A film I've only seen twice, once in my twenties, and once in my late 40s. It is still as fascinating as ever, but in such different ways. What a perfect closet picks video.
I'm so glad Wallace Shawn talked about Colonel Blimp--my favourite Criterion title. I've watched all of these "criterion closet" clips and I'm pretty sure this is the first time anyone mentioned this film specifically (although many talked about Black Narcissus). The Princess Bride is also one of my favourite films of all time so, Wallace Shawn giving such praise to The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp really made my day. If you haven't seen the film, you should, it is epic and wonderful. (And by epic, I mean it's a long movie).
+Denis Sweet After reading the two volumes of Michael Powell's autobio, I did what I could to see his stuff. So, I caught Colonel Blimp. Right now I can only remember that it was really about the old world up against the new world. Can't remember an ending..or how it began. I remember feeling that Michael Powell was a man's man after reading his books.
+sclogse1 I'm not sure when his autobiography came out or when you saw Colonel Blimp, but for the longest time the film was severely edited (to the point of significantly changing the overall meaning of the film, so if you saw it awhile ago, you probably saw a poor version of it. As far as I know, only the criterion collection has the full version of the film, so if that's not the version of Colonel Blimp that you saw, I suggest that that is the one you should watch to fully appreciate it. That's just my opinion, though.
I've always loved these guys, but to know they also love my favourite directors of all time, Powell & Pressburger, makes me absurdly happy. You're right guys, Life & Death of Colonel Blimp is a masterpiece. x
أربع مرات أعدت مشاهدة my dinner with andre من 2018 الى الآن وبكل مرة أستمتع أكثر من اللي قبلها.... مستعد أشاهدكم يوم كامل تسولفون، بدون أي ملل... Big love والله
In late 90's my sister and I were at the Ralph's market on La Brea and Fountain in Hollywood. We spot Wallace Shawn by the prepared food counter, she corners him, getting closer and closer and he is tiny like 5 feet. I turned back cause I was so embarrassed 😂.
charming :D Agree w/Andre re: Red Desert & Wallce re: Eating Raoul. Interesting question about preferred nationality and/or filmmaker... made me think of Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum when it came out on video in the states. I was absolutely blown away by it's visual power and intoxicating mix of personal revolt, epic tragedy, humility and bawdy humor. It made me fall in love w/Chinese cinema... and yet no other Chinese film I've seen has ever surpassed it's simplicity & power (imo).
I LOVE THESE MEN!!! To this day, My Dinner With Andre fascinates me. It's on my 20 Best Films Ever list. Watching them talk about film just brings joy to my heart!!! Thank you, Criterion, for all you do for film geeks like me!!!
Just watched My Dinner With Andre this morning! Such an astonishing film that i’m still thinking about as of now. Definitely picking up the Criterion pretty soon.
These guys are still alive? Good for them! They outlived both Siskel and Ebert who actually gave them a good review for their film My Dinner with Andre years ago. I wish they had their own TV show reviewing films. I’d watch it as a film buff. Why didn’t anybody give them a forum for discussion? Now it’s probably too late. They have such critical views that one could learn something from both of them. Although I would challenge them both and ask why do you like this film and why don’t you like that film? They better have a good reason or explanation why or else it’s just, I like apples and I don’t like oranges but I can’t tell you why! That would be pointless and meaningless.
Westerns are: I'm hard, No! I'm hard. Then someone kills someone. Someone harder. But there's no exploration. There's no truth. There is no revelation. Your dinner movie - which I just finished ten minutes ago - is something I'll have to revisit a few times more before I have a response. I have had various interactions, mostly on Wallace's side, but perhaps once or twice on the other side. There is a lot of truth, introspection and existential dilemma on your amazing movie. I'm sure you don't need fawning fan service + but thank you for your work, both.
This video introduced me to two of my favorite filmmakers antonioni and godard, and my dinner with andre introduced me bergman who is also one of my favorite filmmakers
Lovely piece of film. I love the idea of hating and loving and then hating a film. The first time I saw Donnie Darko I thought I was going to see a horror movie and I hated it. A few years later I watched it again because it was in on many best movie lists and I thought I should. I fell in love immediately. Oh cinema...
I absolutely loved 'My Dinner with Andre' and looked for Wallace Shawn in films ever since. 'Eating Raoul' was a lot of fun. 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' I can watch again and again. Curious in the 3 films they mention 'The Master Builder'. I just saw that play for the first time I believe a made for TV version with EG Marshall as the title character. It's funny because I could relate to the Master Builder's complaints about values and doing this right and young people with all the answers messing things up. Perhaps more about wanting to remain significant and the frustrations of it all going away soon and the fear of what will replace it. The fear of being obsolete.
I love that Wallace Shawn initially hated Weekend. Makes me feel that it's okay that I loathe Breathless. I have yet to come around on it, but maybe someday I will...
I admit that if i hadn't recently discover the brillant Eating Raoul, my reaction here would have been something like:" What's that trash doing in Criterion closet.."
These two are wonderful. They should make a whole movie of just the two of them talking to each other.
@John Smith My Dinner with Andre is the movie they both played in and it's great movie and you should watch it =)
@@otrkid7869 whoosh
Ha ha. Nice one @NickPiers
@@otrkid7869 oh wow bet he didn't know that before. I think we still live in stone edge era except you that is. You're so amazing you're so knowledgeable, you know so much wow. I didn't even knew that a movie named " my dinner with Andre" existed. Thanks a lot for sharing some of your wisdom with us caveman. Fucking oversmart no sense of humour having, Mr. thinks he knows everything ass motherfucker. Fuck you and your shitty piece of information that you should have kept to yourself . Where's your fucking humor, left it in your mother's womb? Can't you see he's clearly trying to be funny using some unoriginal joke ,unintelligent not funny comment???? He knows about the fucking film you forest gump acting motherfucker. Man's clearly trynna be funny , trynna get attention, likes and replies, he's trynna feel good presenting himself as a funny and intelligent guy cuz he ain't got no life outside of this fucking not real community and he ain't got no confidence trying to seek validation in RUclips comment sections and that's what you are doing too.
my criterion trip with andre
nativewizard FAKE CRITERION COVER! We must get on this right away!
Wally and Andre together again.
Inconceivable!
nikosvault I smell a sequel.
I'm not sure that word means what you think it does
I still want the action figures!
"want a peanut?"
@@postedandelivered they said they would do a sequel as old men in a nursing home talking about sex
"Honestly you can't tell if you like things or hate things when you're a kid'" Sums up my childhood.
That struck me as oddly true, also. The child’s brain is so malleable, and therefore so vulnerable to any and all surroundings, that it often absorbs others’ opinions just as a base for how opinions work. You may hear a parent complain that JAWS is a dud because you don’t see the shark until the end, and even then, only in glimpses. That thought may stick with you, and you may not be able to appreciate or even identify how delaying the reveal of the shark builds suspense until much later in life just from one comment.
That explains the kids' media of the past and present. At least in America.
Still can't to this day..
Explains a lot about why they absolutely have to stop the transgender fad which is destroying young people's lives in ways that even drugs couldn't do. You can got off most drugs if you're motivated but once you spay or neuter yourself, that's usually it. Young people don't know what they want or like, they just get enthused based on what others are thinking or doing or saying....
The Picks & Mentions:
Weekend (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
L'Eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Red Desert (1964) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni [14 frames in this movie that Antonioni can't stand]
Eating Raoul (1982) dir. Paul Bartel
My Dinner With Andre (1981) dir. Louis Malle [their own movie]
Claude Chabrol movies [If Wallace Shawn had to watch 10 films by one person]
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) dir. Powell & Pressburger
I like their picks a lot. There are about 2,800 frames in The Passenger I can't stand, though overall I enjoy Antonioni. Adding a 2-minute snuff film (real execution footage) to a major-release feature starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider, though? Really bad idea.
God bless Wallace and you too!!
HA! I love Eating Raoul
Ta v h
Much
I love these two. The way they talk in such a calm demeanor, their thoughts on film...I could listen to them all day.
So unlike most public discourse these days.
They should make a movie of just the two of them talking the whole time.
Oh hey! They did! :D
The only sequel to "My Dinner With Andre" we'll ever get, apparently. And I'll treasure it.
But some of us will always be able to treasure our MY DINNER WITH ANDRE lunchboxes. If we still have them.
As long as it comes with the 'My Dinner With Andre' arcade game. (Tell me more.) #Simpsons
I love how Andre kept the momentum going by constantly asking questions probably one of my favorite closet videos
He’s so precious
Asking questions always relaxes me.
Its like a film buff's candy store in there.
"I don't particularly like to talk about films." -- Wallace Shaun
Robert Shaver Only Wallace Shaun could say that and make me forgive them.
Robert Shaver
Knockout ending line
INCONCEIVABLE!
Even though I talk about films a lot... understandable.
He's more into drinking a good cup of coffee and reading Charlton Heston's autobiography
I can sit and listen to the talking all day long without getting bored.
Same here. ASMR big time.
Have you seen My Dinner with Andre?
Intelligent and interesting.
Lost today.
So can I!
I remember watching "My Dinner With Andre" once, and the atmosphere took me back to an afternoon that I spent talking with a friend who talked his way through Asimov's Sci-Fi... The only thing missing was a table decked with wine and delicacies (as in Andre's), to complement the sojourn through his collection of Agatha Christie novels.
Boy do I have a movie for u
A breath of fresh air in a polluted world. I send these clips off to my teens & other young ones. When they tell me they enjoyed it I get an enormous thrill. Sharing wisdom, knowledge, respect & delving into the arts is how we’ll be saved. Sharing with the young is our duty & when it impacts it’s a wonderful event.
What a lovely comment!
This should be titled "My Dinner with Andre 2"
or....OR retitled, MY LONGEST DINNER-DATE-NIGHT with ANDRÉ
My Breakfast with Wally
Just saw Dinner with Andre...
What a time warp to see them right now
Inconceivable
You'd think that because of slow pace in their voices and the long pauses between forming their next phrase that this video would be monotonous and therefore boring. But no. Quite the opposite. I was distraught that the video ended so quickly. More please. :-(
I was with you until the end. You should have have left the first sentence and not formed the other phrases.
Booorrrriing
It's because their words have meaning
That's why they could make a whole film where they do nothing but chat and it's riveting
Just hearing these guys talk to each other is a delight. Wonderful people.
Yea you could make a whole movie out of just them talking
Questions and mentioned films:
0:16 - "Do you go to the movies often?"
0:27 - "Did you like westerns or not?"
1:08 - *WEEKEND* _dir. Jean-Luc Godard_ (1967)
2:14 - *L’ECLISSE* _dir. Michelangelo Antonioni_ (1962)
[mention] *RED DESERT* _dir. Michelangelo Antonioni_ (1964)
4:29 - *EATING RAOUL* _dir. Paul Bartel_ (1982)
[mention] *MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ* _dir. Louis Malle_ (1981)
4:58 - "Do you have a nationality of films you prefer to watch?"
5:51 - *THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP* _dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger_ (1943)
Legend
We who are about to click salute you!
Andre Gregory gave one of the best performances ever in My Dinner With Andre!
Wallace's description of seeing Godard's Weekend is much the same as when I saw Godard's Alphaville: HATED it and then the next couple days discovered that I couldn't stop thinking about it, quickly realizing it had suddenly become one of my all time favorite films!
It breaks my heart that any man can feel such regret over a work of art. It comforts me to know that I'm not alone in that feeling of actually feeling alone.
Okay, this makes me wanna see Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon do the same. But in semi-character.
THE TRIP TO CRITERION (Extended Michael Caine cut)
That would be great but I doubt they'd talk about movies much apart from using them to try and one-up eachother by doing impressions of the actors in them.
Travis Best
And what's wrong with that?
It's too short, too short, too short! I would like to spend an entire afternoon with these two. Any chance of a longer cut of this?
I just saw “My Dinner With Andre,” I was pleasantly surprised at how engaging these two were. I didn’t think a movie taking place in one setting and featuring two people talking would be interesting for too long. But it’s relevant me gave me a lot to think about
Andre especially is a great storyteller, I could most visualize his adventures in the Polish forest
Hey buddy check out the sunset limited. If you dug MDWA you might dig this.
It almost felt like the precursor to a podcast in a way imo
My favorite thing about this is that Gregory called Shawn "Wally." I love these two!
so adorable 😭😭😭😭
I love this episode. They can't seem to pick anything.
"Oh look there's our box set!" doesn't even go near it LMFAO.
Saw the film " My dinner with Andre"....I have to say its changed my life ...so much information that we can apply to modern life & its stresses .....too bad I did not see this when I was younger....but I will ask my son to watch it ...a Masterpiece thanks to you both..love .
I like to imagine there's an armed goon standing by the door who takes away the guests picks and puts them back on the shelves. they stumble out into the parking lot mussed up and muttering, "so that's what all the nda forms were about..."
love those two! My dinner with Andre was the first movie I ever got to watch when I came to America as a teenager. Fabulous.
Hey, just in case it ever makes it back to either Wallace or Andre, or both, that simple conversation so many years ago echoes through time in the best of ways. It lets us all know this exact conversation, revelation, whatever, has been happening over and over for a very long time, and maybe we'll get to a point where we all have this sort of introspection and realization that this is how so many of us are just floating through our existence.
Thank you both
It would be great to see Wally taking the subway to get to the Criterion offices!
This is adorable.
That Antonioni story is just.... beautiful
Seeing these two walk through this collection is so meta.
These guys are hilarious even when they're dead serious. dope walkthrough
I was very surprised when Wallace Shawn pulled out Transformers 3.
When Andre was telling the Red Desert screening story, it seemed so similar to his recollection about his sojourn in a Polish forest. Love these two men.
With all the anger over the recent placing of Chantal Ackerman's classic being named the #1 movie of all-time, I almost immediately wondered if the same people who are enraged had ever seen My Dinner With Andre. A film I've only seen twice, once in my twenties, and once in my late 40s. It is still as fascinating as ever, but in such different ways. What a perfect closet picks video.
Both have such enjoyable speaking voices, even when they are not saying much.
Give these guys their own TV show already!!!
Seeing these two still have the same kind of chemistry is very heartwarming.
Finally the sequel to My Dinner with Andre!
I keep coming back to this vid and I can never watch it just once, but like 6/7 times.
These two are national treasures.
This is the most charming thing I've ever watched. Did they even take anything?
Godard took more risks in one film than others take in an entire career. How can you not admire that???
We need a "My Dinner With Andre Part II: 2nd Helping"
still melts my heart watching this
this might be my favorite DVD picks!!! This or Zizek
I'm so glad Wallace Shawn talked about Colonel Blimp--my favourite Criterion title. I've watched all of these "criterion closet" clips and I'm pretty sure this is the first time anyone mentioned this film specifically (although many talked about Black Narcissus). The Princess Bride is also one of my favourite films of all time so, Wallace Shawn giving such praise to The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp really made my day. If you haven't seen the film, you should, it is epic and wonderful. (And by epic, I mean it's a long movie).
Ive always wanted to check that one out.
+Denis Sweet After reading the two volumes of Michael Powell's autobio, I did what I could to see his stuff. So, I caught Colonel Blimp. Right now I can only remember that it was really about the old world up against the new world. Can't remember an ending..or how it began. I remember feeling that Michael Powell was a man's man after reading his books.
+sclogse1 I'm not sure when his autobiography came out or when you saw Colonel Blimp, but for the longest time the film was severely edited (to the point of significantly changing the overall meaning of the film, so if you saw it awhile ago, you probably saw a poor version of it. As far as I know, only the criterion collection has the full version of the film, so if that's not the version of Colonel Blimp that you saw, I suggest that that is the one you should watch to fully appreciate it. That's just my opinion, though.
I'll crawl around my room and see if I can find it. It would be easier to stand in front of a semi and play a flame thrower guitar, tho.
+sclogse1 Good luck.
I could listen to Wallace talk all day, his voice is like asmr
Now four years later, My Dinner with Andre and Eating Raoul are part of the same "Glorious Food" collection on the Criterion Channel! Very cool!
I've always loved these guys, but to know they also love my favourite directors of all time, Powell & Pressburger, makes me absurdly happy. You're right guys, Life & Death of Colonel Blimp is a masterpiece. x
أربع مرات أعدت مشاهدة my dinner with andre من 2018 الى الآن وبكل مرة أستمتع أكثر من اللي قبلها....
مستعد أشاهدكم يوم كامل تسولفون، بدون أي ملل...
Big love والله
Watching old people talk about films I’ve never seen gives me such pleasure
Loved watching this. I wonder if Wally & Andre love Tarkovsky as much as I do.
In late 90's my sister and I were at the Ralph's market on La Brea and Fountain in Hollywood. We spot Wallace Shawn by the prepared food counter, she corners him, getting closer and closer and he is tiny like 5 feet. I turned back cause I was so embarrassed 😂.
Their film of Vanya is a masterpiece. Two great artists.
By far hands down best Criterion Closet episode. They are jewels beyond peer.
I want the uncut version of this and it needs to be released as My Dinner with Andre 2!
Man, I hope they started a podcast together.
It sounds cool in paper.
Wallace Shawn seems like a cool dude.
charming :D Agree w/Andre re: Red Desert & Wallce re: Eating Raoul. Interesting question about preferred nationality and/or filmmaker... made me think of Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum when it came out on video in the states. I was absolutely blown away by it's visual power and intoxicating mix of personal revolt, epic tragedy, humility and bawdy humor. It made me fall in love w/Chinese cinema... and yet no other Chinese film I've seen has ever surpassed it's simplicity & power (imo).
They remind me so much of people I knew in NY in the 1970s....
Mabey because they are.
So weird seeing them together like this all old and everything.
All these episodes are so great! I'd love to see Pacino roaming in this room!
Got my thumbs up just because of Wallace Shawn! Love this actor!
I love how Gregory and Shawn arnt in awe of films as they go through the Criterion Collection
I LOVE THESE MEN!!! To this day, My Dinner With Andre fascinates me. It's on my 20 Best Films Ever list. Watching them talk about film just brings joy to my heart!!! Thank you, Criterion, for all you do for film geeks like me!!!
It doesn't get any better than this! And Andrè Gregory may hate a scene in Vanya on 42nd Street, but it was my first Criterion Bluray and I LOVE it!
He'll always be Grand Nagus Zek to me.
They are such cool guys. Must be incredible to watch something heady like Antonioni with them 🤗
Just watched My Dinner With Andre this morning! Such an astonishing film that i’m still thinking about as of now. Definitely picking up the Criterion pretty soon.
I would say something along the lines of "I wish I could listen to these two talk more", but I've got a dinner with them on DVD to watch.
Two of my favorite people. Please Gentlemen, keep contributing to our culture.
Release the 112 minute cut of this and put it out as a sequel to My Dinner With Andre,
I was really hoping he’d say “if you didn’t have anything to play these on it would be almost....INCONCEIVABLE!”
These guys are still alive? Good for them! They outlived both Siskel and Ebert who actually gave them a good review for their film My Dinner with Andre years ago. I wish they had their own TV show reviewing films. I’d watch it as a film buff. Why didn’t anybody give them a forum for discussion? Now it’s probably too late. They have such critical views that one could learn something from both of them. Although I would challenge them both and ask why do you like this film and why don’t you like that film? They better have a good reason or explanation why or else it’s just, I like apples and I don’t like oranges but I can’t tell you why! That would be pointless and meaningless.
At last someone picks a Powell and Pressburger film!
We need a My Dinner with Andre II (Maybe called My Dinner with Wally?). This is the next best thing. Thank you!
My Dinner with Andre ... always & forever !!
Omg - the stuff Wally's saying about liking and hating things in the beginning has me in hysterics.
Westerns are:
I'm hard, No! I'm hard. Then someone kills someone.
Someone harder.
But there's no exploration. There's no truth. There is no revelation.
Your dinner movie - which I just finished ten minutes ago - is something I'll have to revisit a few times more before I have a response.
I have had various interactions, mostly on Wallace's side, but perhaps once or twice on the other side.
There is a lot of truth, introspection and existential dilemma on your amazing movie.
I'm sure you don't need fawning fan service + but thank you for your work, both.
My Dinner With....remains one of the most fascinating films of all time.
Sweet guys; great interaction between them. Great stories too 👌🏻
This is one of the most wonderful episodes of this series.
these two are so interesting to listen to, you could probably make a whole film of nothing but a conversation between them... wait
This video introduced me to two of my favorite filmmakers antonioni and godard, and my dinner with andre introduced me bergman who is also one of my favorite filmmakers
Lovely piece of film. I love the idea of hating and loving and then hating a film. The first time I saw Donnie Darko I thought I was going to see a horror movie and I hated it. A few years later I watched it again because it was in on many best movie lists and I thought I should. I fell in love immediately. Oh cinema...
This is the greatest video of all time
The sequel we didn't deserve, but all wanted.
Indeed. It is canon now.
I absolutely loved 'My Dinner with Andre' and looked for Wallace Shawn in films ever since. 'Eating Raoul' was a lot of fun. 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' I can watch again and again. Curious in the 3 films they mention 'The Master Builder'. I just saw that play for the first time I believe a made for TV version with EG Marshall as the title character. It's funny because I could relate to the Master Builder's complaints about values and doing this right and young people with all the answers messing things up. Perhaps more about wanting to remain significant and the frustrations of it all going away soon and the fear of what will replace it. The fear of being obsolete.
I love that Wallace Shawn initially hated Weekend. Makes me feel that it's okay that I loathe Breathless. I have yet to come around on it, but maybe someday I will...
They are literally me and my husband in the future when talk about movies.
If they didn't have anything to play those things on it would be like that "Twilight Zone" episode.
what a rare treat! so much amazing stuff in one room.
Andre's voice seems untouched by time.
Lovely yarn between mates.
I admit that if i hadn't recently discover the brillant Eating Raoul, my reaction here would have been something like:" What's that trash doing in Criterion closet.."
Interesting that they went with, "Dude, Where's My Car?"