Dick Johnson is Dead

Starring: Michael Hilow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson, et al.

Product Description

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 has begun 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 verite 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.

• Format: Blu-ray
• UPC: 715515267816
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: The Criterion Collection
• Director: Kirsten Johnson
• Starring: Michael Hilow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson, Chad Knorr, Kevin Loreque, Vasthy Mompoint, Mary Page Nance, Ira Sachs, Nicole Tio
• Runtime: 1 hour, 29 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: blu_ray
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.