Film by Samuel Beckett
Apr 20, 2006
Film (1965)
Directed by Alan Schneider
Written by Samuel Beckett
Buster Keaton: The Man
Nell Harrison: Passerby
James Karen: Passerby
Duration: 20 minutes
Film (1965)
Directed by Alan Schneider
Written by Samuel Beckett
Buster Keaton: The Man
Nell Harrison: Passerby
James Karen: Passerby
Duration: 20 minutes
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Tags: Samuel Beckett.
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#1 posted by Eroom Nala
Apr 20th, 2006
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.
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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
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#2 posted by Eroom Nala
Apr 20th, 2006
another still with cat
http://filmsociety.wellington.net.nz/db/screeningdetail.php?id=184
#3 posted by Eroom Nala
Apr 20th, 2006
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 posted by John
Apr 20th, 2006
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.