4 thoughts on “Film by Samuel Beckett”

  1. If only I had a fast internet connection.
    What did you think of it?
    I read the screenplay ages ago but still haven’t seen it.

    QUOTE

    Film was the only work that Beckett wrote specifically for the cinema. Starring Buster Keaton, and featuring no dialogue or music (just one ?shhh?), Beckett explores the eighteenth century Irish philosopher Berkeley?s dictum that ?to be is to be perceived?. Keaton attempts to elude the camera eye, only ultimately to discover that it is his own. Film was directed by Alan Schneider under the personal supervision of Beckett, who travelled to New York to be present through the shooting.

    http://english.fsu.edu/jobs/num07/Num7Henning.htm
    ENDQUOTE

  3. Signed front cover page of French edition of screenplay

    http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/beckett/film.jpg

    More stills

    http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/beckett_film_film1965.html

    Buster Keaton on the set

    http://www.geocities.com/~oldbrit/bklifeobit2.JPG

    two more stills:

    http://www.schellsburg.com/j_beckett.asp

    Beckett and Keaton both together

    http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_development/2005_1/buster_keaton_and_the_art_of_the_wise_fool

    DVD cover:

    http://5minutestolive.com/2ACOVER/film.gif

    Think I’d better stop now

  4. It was very odd, not least because Keaton’s “Man” keeps his back to the camera through most of it. There’s some funny stuff when he tires to put his cat and dog outside the room and every time he opens the door one of the other of them runs back in.

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