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Vanya On 42nd Street: The Criterion Collection DVD

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Vanya On 42nd Street: The Criterion Collection DVD

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  • Technical Specs
  • Format: DVD
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Run Time: 119 Minutes
  • Region: 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Studio: Criterion Collection
  • DVD Release Date: February 28, 2012
  • Packaging: Keep Case
  • Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
  • Color: Color
  • Includes:
    New Documentary Featuring Interviews With Andre Gregory, The Play's Director; Actors Lynn Cohen, George Gaynes, Julianne Moore, Larry Pine, Wallace Shaw, and Brooke Smith; And Producer Fred Berner
    Trailer
    Booklet Featuring An Essay By Critic Steven Vineberg
    1994 On-Set Report By Film Critic Amy Taubin
In the early nineties, theater director André Gregory mounted a series of spare, private performances of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in a crumbling Manhattan playhouse. This experiment in pure theater - featuring a remarkable cast of actors, including Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Brooke Smith, and George Gaynes - would have been lost to time had it not been captured on film, with subtle cinematic brilliance, by Louis Malle. Vanya On 42nd Street is as memorable and emotional a screen version of Chekhov's masterpiece as one could ever hope to see. This film, which turned out to be Malle's last, is a tribute to the playwright's devastating work as well as to the creative process itself.
 
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