Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Ave
212.582.6050
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My Dinner with Andre
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Saturday Nov 14, 2009 (2pm)
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- Price
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$10
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A cocktail reception and a conversation with Gregory, Shawn, and Bob Balaban follows the screening.
Directed by the incomparable Louis Malle, and now aged 28 years, this heady toast to life's intricacies could not have a simpler premise: two friends reunite and catch up over supper. In this enriching case, actor/playwright Wallace Shawn and theatre director André Gregory are the ones across the table, both fencers of an intellectual thrust. The two basically play themselves; initially, André, a blessed raconteur, relates his quixotic search for transcendence (including being ritualistically buried at Richard Avedon's estate in order to be reborn). These experiences are met with a wall of "uh-huh"s before Wally eases himself into one of cinema's most memorable conversations.
