Steven Soderbergh

Gray’s Anatomy

Gray’s Anatomy

One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen, Spalding Gray, came together with one of cinema’s boldest image-makers, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, for Gray’s Anatomy, a spellbinding adaptation of Gray’s 1993 monologue of the same name (cowritten with Renée Shafransky). In it, 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; for the filmmaker, it was a chance to experiment with ways of bringing his subject’s words to brilliant, eye-opening life.

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Film Info

  • United States
  • 1997
  • 79 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
  • Spine #618

Director-Approved Special Edition Features

  • New high definition digital transfer, supervised by director Steven Soderbergh, with a remastered 5.1 mix presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
  • New interviews with Soderbergh and monologue cowriter Renée Shafransky
  • A Personal History of the American Theater, a ninety-five-minute monologue by Spalding Gray, originally produced by the Wooster Group in 1980 and videotaped in 1982
  • Swimming to the Macula, sixteen minutes of footage from Gray's actual eye surgery
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: A new essay by film critic Amy Taubin

    New cover by Neil Kellerhouse

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Director-Approved Special Edition Features

  • New high definition digital transfer, supervised by director Steven Soderbergh, with a remastered 5.1 mix presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
  • New interviews with Soderbergh and monologue cowriter Renée Shafransky
  • A Personal History of the American Theater, a ninety-five-minute monologue by Spalding Gray, originally produced by the Wooster Group in 1980 and videotaped in 1982
  • Swimming to the Macula, sixteen minutes of footage from Gray's actual eye surgery
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: A new essay by film critic Amy Taubin

    New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Gray’s Anatomy
Cast
Spalding Gray
Credits
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Writer
Spalding Gray
Based on the monologue by
Spalding Gray
Based on the monologue by
Renée Shafransky
Executive producer
Jonathan Sehring
Executive producer
Caroline Kaplan
Executive producer
Kathleen Russo
Producer
John Hardy
Editing
Susan Littenberg
Camera
Elliot Davis

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Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh

In 1989, when he was twenty-six, Steven Soderbergh became the youngest director ever to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. What’s more, he received the honor for his debut, the intense character study sex, lies, and videotape. Soderbergh spent the decade after this auspicious arrival trying out many different kinds of films, from intriguingly off-kilter studio projects like King of the Hill (1993) and Out of Sight (1998) to independent experiments like Schizopolis (1996) and Gray’s Anatomy (1996). Even after winning an Academy Award for the epic Traffic (2000) and continuing to work on bigger-budget Hollywood films like Ocean’s Eleven (2001), this high-profile filmmaker has never lost his drive to make compelling independent cinema, whether large-scale (2008’s Che) or small (2010’s And Everything Is Going Fine).

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