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Dick Johnson Is Dead|Criterion Collection

Dick Johnson Is Dead

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Overview

Dick Johnson Is Dead is a film by documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson that centers on her psychiatrist father, Dick Johnson, and their family's adjustment to his declining health. With good-natured humor that characterizes their relationship, the father-daughter duo explores the many ways the patriarch could pass, all of which are comically staged—an air conditioner falling on his head, falling down the stairs, being struck in the neck and bleeding out, and many more.

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Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD
  • Run Time: 89
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 715515267915
  • Genre: DOCUMENTARY
  • Rating: PG13
  • Release Date: January 2022

Movie Reviews

Reviews:
"A profoundly heartfelt cinematic eulogy to the filmmaker’s living father Richard, made with his good-humored collaboration as he slowly slips into the limbo of Alzheimer’s, it also doubles as a witty, thoughtful rumination on death itself..." - 01/25/2020 Variety


"DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD is one of the craftiest and funniest love letters ever composed, and it’s all the better because it’s on film and the recipient stars in it." - 01/25/2020 Hollywood Reporter


3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[T]his is a rich and rewarding documentary that feels like the next stage in the stylistic evolution of Kirsten Johnson." - 10/02/2020 RogerEbert.com


5 stars out of 5 -- "[An] oddly poignant and sneakily provocative movie..." - 10/05/2020 Rolling Stone


"[T]he rehearsals demonstrate Johnson’s meticulous approach to a tragedy in the making. DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD plays like a living tribute to the man, a record of a time right before he inevitably fails to recognize his own daughter." - 09/30/2020 A.V. Club


"Pitched artfully between the celebratory and the elegiac, it is an inarguably serious documentary with light, surrealistic flourishes that, at times, veer into exuberant goofiness." - 10/01/2020 New York Times


"Johnson’s project is about the management not of filial ambivalence, outsized parental legacies or unfinished emotional business, but of love." - 12/11/2020 Sight and Sound

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