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Vanya on 42nd Street

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Vanya on 42nd Street
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PG,1hr 59min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1994
Director:
Louis Malle
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Wallace Shawn, Brooke Smith, Andre Gregory  ...more
Synopsis: In the late 1980s, noted theatrical director Andre Gregory assembled a group of friends and actors and began rehearsing a new translation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya by David Mamet, not with any specific performance in mind but as a way of exploring the beauty and precise construction of Chekhov's play. Louis Malle, a friend of Gregory's, became interested in the project and spent two weeks filming Gregory's actors as they performed Uncle Vanya without an audience in a run-down theater near New ... Full Synopsis
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Brendon Hanley, AMG Review
A clever and powerful interpretation of the Anton Chekhov play Uncle Vanya, Vanya on 42nd Street reunites director Louis Malle with Wallace Shawn and André Gregory, his collaborators from 1981's My Dinner With André. Like that film, Vanya is a self-reflexive examination of the thin line between an actor's performances and his or her own life; the success of both films relies on Malle's ability to convincingly ... Full Review
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