Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1111]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 1hr 29mn | 3.66 GB
English: DTS, 6 ch, 1510 kbps \ English (commentary x 2): AC3, 2 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary, Drama
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 1hr 29mn | 3.66 GB
English: DTS, 6 ch, 1510 kbps \ English (commentary x 2): AC3, 2 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Director: Kirsten Johnson
Writer: Nels Bangerter, Kirsten Johnson
Stars: Michael Hilow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson
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 is beginning 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.
Extras:
- New audio commentary featuring Johnson, cowriter and editor Nels Bangerter, and documentary sound recordist Judy Karp
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