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Just two guys and a table. My Dinner with Andre will forever be known as the film that consists only of two hours of dinner conversation, yet never becomes boring.

And on Thursday I bore witness to man's inhumanity to animals. I mean, I think that was what I was doing.

Could you picture Wallace Shawn, left, and Andre Gregory as 85-year-olds talking about sex? First, the bad news: The new Criterion edition of Louis Malle's 1981 masterpiece My Dinner with Andre does not come with the action figures mentioned by Christopher Guest in Waiting for Guffman.

Here are the DVDs releasing this week, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. A few titles, but an otherwise slow week.

I try to catch My Dinner With Andre at least once, maybe twice a year. It's one of those wonderful films which seems to change every time I see it, but, of course, the movie doesn't change at all.

"My Dinner with Andre," a feature-length conversation between actor/playwright Wallace Shawn and theater director Andre Gregory, became an indie film sensation back in 1981, inspiring a slew of imitators.

The idea is astonishing in its audacity: a film of two friends talking, just simply talking-but with passion, wit, scandal, whimsy, vision, hope, and despair-for 110 minutes.

London, Henry Hitchings's rating Reader rating Description: Andre Gregory directs Wallace Shawn's contemporary drama about a scientist with many loves.

His plays might be controversial, but Wallace Shawn says he's just exploring what makes us tick.