Beckett on Film
aka: Waiting for Godot, et al.
UK 2001, 647 minutes
Dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Neil Jordan, Kieron J Walsh, Charles Sturridge, Atom Egoyan, Damien O'Donnell, Walter Asmus, John Crowley, Karel Reisz, Patricia Rozema, David Mamet, Damien Hirst, Charles Harrad, Conor McPherson, Edna Hughes, Robin Lefevre, Anthony Minghella, Richard Eyre
Rating: [Exempt]
Genres: Drama / Performing Arts
Topics: Stageplay.
Feat. Julianne Moore, David Kelly, Jeremy Irons, John Hurt, Sean McGinley, Gary Lewis, Anna Massey, Sian Phillips, Harold Pinter, Rebecca Pidgeon, John Gielgud, Jim Norton, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Alan Rickman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Penelope Wilton
Aroview: An ambitious anthology of Samuel Beckett's nineteen stageplays, filmed here creatively by a roster of prestige actors and directors.
Disc 1:
Waiting for Godot (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 120min)
Not I (Neil Jordon, 14min)
Rough for Theatre I (Kieron J Walsh, 20min)
Ohio Impromptu (Charles Sturridge, 12 min)
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film (Documentary, 52min)
Disc 2:
Krapp's Last Tape (Atom Egoyan, 58min)
What Where (Damien O’Donnell, 12min)
Footfalls (Walter Asmus, 28min)
Come and Go (John Crowley, 8 min)
Act Without Words I (Karel Reisz, 16min)
Disc 3:
Happy Days (Patricia Rozema, 79min)
Catastrophe (David Mamet, 7min)
Rough for Theatre II (Katie Mitchell, 30min)
Breath (Damien Hirst, 45sec)
That Time (Charles Harrad, 20min)
Disc 4:
Endgame (Conor McPherson, 84min)
Act Without Words II (Enda Hughes, 11min)
A Piece of Monologue (Robin Lefevre, 20min)
Play (Anthony Minghella, 16min)
Rockaby (Richard Eyre, 14min)
DVD Features
- cast and/or crew interviews
- 'making of' documentary / featurette
- aspect ratio: 4:3
- 4-disc set
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