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Gray's anatomy [videorecording (DVD)].

Criterion Collection, 2012.

DVD 792.76 G782g Perf

Gray, Spalding, 1941-2004 -- Performances.

Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Anecdotes.

Eye -- Diseases -- Alternative treatment.

Alternative medicine.

Physician and patient -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 618.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[videorecording (DVD)].

Director-approved special ed.

2 videodiscs (79 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. & b&w ; 12 cm.+ 1 booklet.

Based on the monologue by Spalding Gray and Renée Shafransky.

Originally released as a monologist film in 1997.

Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Steven Soderbergh, with a remastered 5.1 mix ; new interviews with Soderbergh and monologue cowriter Renée Shafransky ; 'Swimming to the Macula,' sixteen minutes of footage from Spalding Grays' actual eye surgery ; trailer ; Disc 2. 'A personal history of the American Theater,' a ninety-five-minute monologue by Gray, originally produced by the Wooster Group in 1980 and videotaped in 1982 ; PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Amy Taubin.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Written and performed by Spalding Gray ; directed by Steven Soderbergh.

Spalding Gray with interviewees Mike McLaughlin, Melissa Robertson, Alvin Henry, Alyne Hargroder, Buddy Carr, Gerry Urso, Chris Simms, Tommy Staub, Fay L. Woo, M.D. and Kirk A. Patrick, Jr.

"One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen, Spalding Gray, came together with one of cinema's boldest image-makers, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, for Gray's Anatomy, a spellbinding adaptation of Gray's 1993 monologue of the same name (cowritten with Renée Shafransky). In it, Gray, with typical sardonic relish, chronicles his arduous journey through the diagnosis and treatment of a rare and alarming ocular condition. For the monologist, this experience occasioned a meditation on illness and mortality, medicine and metaphysics; for the filmmaker, it was a chance to experiment with ways of bringing his subject's words to brilliant, eye-opening life."--Container.

Dark comedy films.

One-person shows (Performing arts)

Filmed performances.

Stand-up comedy routines.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Soderbergh, Steven, 1963-

Gray, Spalding, 1941-2004.

Shafransky, Renée.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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