Cinema Cellar

Vanya On 42Nd Street Dvd NLA

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1994
Director: Louis Malle
Genre: Drama
Cast: André Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Larry Pine, Brooke Smith, George Gaynes, Lynn Cohen, Phoebe Brand, Jerry Mayer, Madhur Jaffrey, Oren Moverman
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Language: English
Release Date: 2012-02-28
Description

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.