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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.

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
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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