André Gregory and Wallace Shawn’s DVD Picks
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- At the Criterion offices to celebrate the release of A MASTER BUILDER, André Gregory and Wallace Shawn took a trip to the DVD closet. Check out what they picked!
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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!
"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....
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
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
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.
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
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 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
This should be titled "My Dinner with Andre 2"
or....OR retitled, MY LONGEST DINNER-DATE-NIGHT with ANDRÉ
My Breakfast with Wally
"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
"Oh look there's our box set!" doesn't even go near it LMFAO.
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
Just saw Dinner with Andre...
What a time warp to see them right now
Inconceivable
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!
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!
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.
Andre Gregory gave one of the best performances ever in My Dinner With Andre!
My favorite thing about this is that Gregory called Shawn "Wally." I love these two!
so adorable 😭😭😭😭
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!
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
This is adorable.
I love this episode. They can't seem to pick anything.
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..."
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
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?
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.
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 .
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?
That Antonioni story is just.... beautiful
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
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.
Seeing these two walk through this collection is so meta.
It would be great to see Wally taking the subway to get to the Criterion offices!
These guys are hilarious even when they're dead serious. dope walkthrough
These two are national treasures.
Both have such enjoyable speaking voices, even when they are not saying much.
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.
Finally the sequel to My Dinner with Andre!
Give these guys their own TV show already!!!
I was very surprised when Wallace Shawn pulled out Transformers 3.
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
still melts my heart watching this
We need a "My Dinner With Andre Part II: 2nd Helping"
I could listen to Wallace talk all day, his voice is like asmr
Godard took more risks in one film than others take in an entire career. How can you not admire that???
Two of my favorite people. Please Gentlemen, keep contributing to our culture.
Got my thumbs up just because of Wallace Shawn! Love this actor!
Release the 112 minute cut of this and put it out as a sequel to My Dinner With Andre,
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 keep coming back to this vid and I can never watch it just once, but like 6/7 times.
This is the most charming thing I've ever watched. Did they even take anything?
this might be my favorite DVD picks!!! This or Zizek
Wallace Shawn seems like a cool dude.
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 😂.
They remind me so much of people I knew in NY in the 1970s....
Mabey because they are.
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
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.
At last someone picks a Powell and Pressburger film!
My Dinner with Andre ... always & forever !!
This is the greatest video of all time
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.."
Their film of Vanya is a masterpiece. Two great artists.
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!
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.
Watching old people talk about films I’ve never seen gives me such pleasure
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!
I was really hoping he’d say “if you didn’t have anything to play these on it would be almost....INCONCEIVABLE!”
So weird seeing them together like this all old and everything.
Loved watching this. I wonder if Wally & Andre love Tarkovsky as much as I do.
Man, I hope they started a podcast together.
It sounds cool in paper.
They are such cool guys. Must be incredible to watch something heady like Antonioni with them 🤗
I want the uncut version of this and it needs to be released as My Dinner with Andre 2!
The sequel we didn't deserve, but all wanted.
Indeed. It is canon now.
We need a My Dinner with Andre II (Maybe called My Dinner with Wally?). This is the next best thing. Thank you!
This video is an actual treasure, my god!
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 think I'm going to have to rent Rifkin's Festival again after watching this ... not a great movie, but there's some soothing about hearing Wallace Shawn chatting in your ear.
My Dinner With....remains one of the most fascinating films of all time.
Sweet guys; great interaction between them. Great stories too 👌🏻
All these episodes are so great! I'd love to see Pacino roaming in this room!
I love how Gregory and Shawn arnt in awe of films as they go through the Criterion Collection
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.
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...
He'll always be Grand Nagus Zek to me.
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!!!
Lovely yarn between mates.
This is one of the most wonderful episodes of this series.
Never in a million years would I watch Weekend with my mom lmao 🤣
what a rare treat! so much amazing stuff in one room.
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
This one is good, feels the most like a film than any other of these videos.
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...
these two are so interesting to listen to, you could probably make a whole film of nothing but a conversation between them... wait
Omg - the stuff Wally's saying about liking and hating things in the beginning has me in hysterics.
Big thanks to my heroes !
"...Although if you didn't have anything to play these on, it would be almost heart-breaking." Alas, sadly, this is becoming a reality, especially now that computers/laptops don't even come with a DVD/CD-ROM drive anymore.
(bp) the way andre shares that personal anecdote about antonioni!
this may be the first time that a closet picker drifts into anecdote...