Comments on: Film by Samuel Beckett

By: John

John — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:38:35 +0000

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.

By: Eroom Nala

Eroom Nala — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:43:47 +0000

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

By: Eroom Nala

Eroom Nala — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:17:26 +0000

another still with cat

http://filmsociety.wellington.net.nz/db/screeningdetail.php?id=184

By: Eroom Nala

Eroom Nala — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:05:53 +0000

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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