"Beckett"
Beckett
Après un tragique accident de la route en Grèce, Beckett, un touriste américain, se retrouve pris dans un dangereux complot politique et doit fuir pour sauver sa peau.
Becket
Au XIIe siècle, Thomas Becket est le chancelier du royaume et l'ami d'Henri II d'Angleterre. Celui-ci doit le promouvoir archevêque de Canterbury à la mort de ce dernier. Becket se sent alors investi par toutes les tâches qui lui incombent, mais ses activités font bientôt de lui un rival pour le roi…
L'affare Beckett
Rod Cooper, an American agent of the CIA, is sent to Paris to discover if colonel Segura, head of a clandestine organization which proclaims itself anti-Castroist, is playing a double game at the expense of the United States. He first tries to make contact with Ms Beckett, who should tell him. Segura's intentíons, but the woman is found killed. Su..
Les Prisonniers de Beckett
The meeting of two worlds that never met. One of poetry and freedom, and the other of silence and darkness. A story that begins in a maximum security prison in Sweden where a young actor, Jan Jönson, decides to stage " Waiting for Godot "with five prisoners as actors.
Rob Beckett: Wallop
Rob Beckett is back - the Mouth of the South has had a busy few years and now returns to tour to fill audiences in.
Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, and his decorated service with the French Resistance. He had settled in France before the Second World War, met fellow Irishman James Joyce, and begun writing. P..
Pitch ‘n’ Putt with Beckett ‘n’ Joyce
Tensions arise between James Joyce and Samuel Beckett during a game of Pitch and Putt golf when a guest fails to show up.
Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a var..
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
Krapp’s Last Tape: James Hayes uses his natural Irish accent to deliver the best known of these works, a meditation on ageing. He plays the eponymous Krapp, a sad, lonely man recollecting emotion in tranquility with the assistance of a reel to reel tape recorder. Now somewhere near 70, he is reminded of the past, as a recording of his 39-year-o..
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of Samuel Beckett's nineteen plays.
Samuel Beckett is Coming Soon
Two actors. On a road. With a tree. An effective description of the world Tony A and Tony Z find themselves inhabiting in Alan Arkin's film. "Samuel Beckett is Coming Soon...". Far from home, awaiting fame, recognition - or just an audience - the Tonys barely notice their lives mirroring the sad comedy, "Waiting for Godot." As they journey through ..
Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the man who made Waiting for Godot.
Waiting for Beckett
Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.
Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett)
A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes.
Samuel Beckett - Mute Interview
A wordless, silent interview with Samuel Beckett for Swedish Television after Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries
The award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King is legendary, in that there is little historical evidence he exists. But he does exist. His debut solo show opens a cabinet of curiosities, tackling the conundrums of impending extinction, archaic axioms, emotional repression and vegan flimflam. Come and see it, please. Winner Leicester Mercury Comed..
Beckett in Berlin
A short film by Rosa von Praunheim
Beckett by Brook
With hindsight, we can see exactly how wrong the labels given to Samuel Beckett have been, since it has been said that his writing was sad, negative and desperate. Nowadays, it can be said that several of his pieces submerge us in the reality of human existence, but with an element of humor - and it is this humor that has saved us. Beckett rejects ..
Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone or something named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness.
Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'
The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal process of Beckett's newest play, including the recording of the dialogue, as almost all of it i..