Gray's anatomy /

A spellbinding adaptation of Gray's 1993 monologue of the same name in which Gray, with typical sardonic relish, chronicles his arduous journey through the diagnosis and treatment of a rare and alarming ocular condition. For the monologist, this experience occasioned a meditation on illness and...

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Uniform Title:Gray's anatomy (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Janus Films, Independent Film Channel, BBC Films, Bait and Switch (Firm), Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Hardy, John, Shafransky, Renée, Robertson, Melissa, Henry, Alvin, Davis, Elliot, 1948-, Martinez, Cliff, Littenberg, Susan, Soderbergh, Steven, 1963-, Gray, Spalding, 1941-2004, McLaughlin, M. J.
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:English
Language Notes:In English with English SDH subtitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection : Bait and Switch, [2012]
Edition:Blu-ray ed.
Series:Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 618.
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Summary:A spellbinding adaptation of Gray's 1993 monologue of the same name in which Gray, with typical sardonic relish, chronicles his arduous journey through the diagnosis and treatment of a rare and alarming ocular condition. For the monologist, this experience occasioned a meditation on illness and mortality, medicine and metaphysics.
Item Description:Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997.
Release date: Jun. 19, 2012.
Accompanying booklet features essay by film critic Amy Toubin.
Special features include: new interviews with Soderbergh and cowriter, Renée Shafransky ; A personal history of the American theater, a monologue by Spalding Gray ; Swimming to the macula ; theatrical trailer ; booklet.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Format:Blu-ray format ; region A ; dts-HD master audio 5.1 ; widescreen,1.85:1.
Audience:Rating: PG; for mature theme.
Production Credits:Cinematography, Elliot Davis ; music, Cliff Martinez ; editor, Susan Littenberg.
ISBN:9781604655995
1604655992