DVD & Blu-ray: DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (2020) - Documentary - Criterion Collection

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 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.

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Director: Kirsten Johnson

Starring: Michael Hillow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson

Genre: Documentary, Drama

Runtime: 89 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: January 25, 2022

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DVD - Criterion Collection

Blu-ray - Criterion Collection

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: Dolby Digital 5.1
Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

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DVD: English SDH

Blu-ray: English SDH

SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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New 2K digital master, approved by director Kirsten Johnson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
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 Pete Horner
New program featuring Johnson in conversation with fellow filmmakers about redefining what a documentary can be
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
English descriptive audio
PLUS: An essay by author So Mayer