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Dick Johnson is dead [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Kirsten Johnson.

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Criterion Collection, 2022.

DVD 616.831 D547 Doc

Johnson, Charles Richard.

Johnson, Kirsten (Kirsten Boyd)

Dementia -- Patients -- Care.

Dementia -- Patients -- Family relationships.

Fathers and daughters.

Criterion collection ; 1111.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Director-approved DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (89 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.

Originally produced as a documentary film for Netflix in 2020.

Special features: New 2K digital master, approved by director Kirsten Johnson ; new audio commentary featuring Johnson, cowriter and editor Nels Bangerter, and documentary sound recordist Judy Karp; new conversation among Johnson and her fellow producers Katy Chevigny and Marilyn Ness and coproducer Maureen A. Ryan ; new interview with sound designer Peter Horner ; new program featuring Johnson in conversation with fellow filmmakers about redefining what a documentary can be ; trailer ; PLUS: an essay by author So Mayer.

In English with optional English (SDH) subtitles as well as an English audio description track.

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

Audio description track (for people with visual disabilities).

Produced by Katy Chevigny, Kirsten Johnson, Marilyn Ness ; written by Kirsten Johnson, Nels Bangerter ; directed by Kirsten 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."--Container.

Documentary films.

Biographical documentary films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Films for people with visual disabilities.

Described video.

Johnson, Kirsten (Kirsten Boyd).

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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