Andre Gregory, Brooke Smith, George Gaynes
Vanya on 42nd Street takes place during a run-through of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya inside the dilapidated New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City. Chekhov's classic play concerns an extended family a...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 24, 2002
Stats: 65 reviews
Amazing. Louis Malle makes a film about the love for the theater, and the love for the art, and the joy, the insight that it provides to life. All the cast is exemplary, but I think Brooke Smith is the revelation here. It takes a while to grow on you, but if you go past the first...( read more)
This could have easily been nothing more than an filmed stage play, but Malle brings his camera in close. Thus we get an extremely personal film.
Malle's last film before his untimely death, where he returns to the US. A semi-documentary film making an account of a theater adaption of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya". Haven't seen it yet.
Brilliantly adapted by David Mamet with an outstanding cast. Theatrical cinema doesn't get any better.
BEAUTIFUL...JUST BEAUTIFUL!!! Louis Malle's final film is, at it's most basic, a run through/ rehearsal of David Mamet's translation of Anton Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA under the direction of Andre Gregory. But this gorgeous film winds being SO much more than just a documentation of ...( read more)
A film which reduces Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" to its bare elements: loneliness, wasted lives, romantic hope and despair. To add elaborate sets, costumes and locations to this material would only dilute... full review
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