Rent Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
3.8 of 5 from 70 ratings
1h 29min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
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 is beginning 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. - Actors:
- Michael Hilow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson, Chad Knorr, Kevin Loreque, Vasthy Mompoint, Mary Page Nance, Ira Sachs, Nicole Tio
- Directors:
- Kirsten Johnson
- Producers:
- Katy Chevigny, Kirsten Johnson, Marilyn Ness
- Writers:
- Nels Bangerter, Kirsten Johnson
- Others:
- Kirsten Johnson
- Genres:
- Documentary, Drama, Special Interest
- Awards:
2020 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize Documentary #2
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/02/2022
- Run Time:
- 89 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description, English DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- 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 Bangerter and filmmakers Mike Mills, Michael Moore, Joshua Oppenheimer, and Laura Poitras
- Trailer
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