Title:
Gray's anatomy [DVD video]
Edition:
Director-approved special ed.
Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2012]
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (79 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 19 cm.).
ISBN:
9781604656008
Abstract:
One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen comes 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 in which he chronicles his journey from diagnosis to treatment of a rare ocular condition.
General Note:
Title from disc surface.
Based on the monologue by Spalding Gray and Renée Shafransky.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
Special features: 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.
Accompanying booklet features essay by film critic Amy Toubin.
Performers:
Interviewees: Spalding Gray, Mike McLaughlin, Milissa Robertson, Alvin Henry, Alyne Hargroder, Buddy Carr.
Technical Details:
DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Personal Subject:
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English with optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.