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What?...who?...no!...she! (1977 Video)

Director

David R Clark

Producer

David R Clark

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. b&w. 34 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Dr James Knowlson, director of the Beckett Archive at the University of Reading and editor of the ‘Journal of Beckett Studies’, explores with Miss Billie Whitelaw the background to her performances of...

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Rockaby (1982 Video)

Director

Chris Hegedus; D A Pennebaker

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocasstte. VHS (NTSC). col. 58 min., 2000 sale: US$149.00 (+p&p)

Shows the process of bringing Samuel Beckett’s short play ‘Rockaby’ to the stage, including early informal discussions, costuming, lighting and rehearsals. Concludes with a complete performance of the...

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Samuel Beckett: As the Story was Told (1996)

Director

Seán Ó Mórdha

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £195.00

Biography of dramatist Samuel Beckett. Part 1 covers his formative years, his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, his service with the French Resistance. Beckett had settled...

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Canterbury Tales, The (2005)

Director

Marc Munden; John McKay; Julian Jarrold; Andy De Emmony

Producer

Kate Bartlett

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (300 minutes), £26 (IMC); £1,170 (BBC Active)

Six part drama series, consisting of retellings of six of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, updated for a modern audience and given a contemporary setting. Starring Julie Walters, James Nesbit, Billie...

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Shades: Three Plays by Samuel Beckett (1977 Video)

Director

Donald McWhinnie; Anthony Page

Producer

Tristram Powell

Subject

Drama

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. VHS. col?. 60 min.

Documents the early life of Samuel Beckett. Martin Esslin talks about the playwright. Includes performances of ‘Ghost Trio’, '...But the Clouds...' and ‘Not I’.

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Sound of Jazz, The (1957 Film, Video)

Producer

Robert Herridge

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Featured artists include Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Freddy Green, Jo Jones, Emett Berry, Doc Cheatham, Benny Morton, Joe Newman, Earl Warren, Dickie Wells, Lester Young,...

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Film / Notfilm (2017)

aka: Film: A Film by Samuel Beckett / Notfilm: A Kino Essay by Ross Lipman

Director

Ross Lipman; Alan Schneider

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 152 minutes), £19.99

FILM (Alan Schneider,1965, 22 mins) is the Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett’s only screenplay, starring Buster Keaton. In his extensive Kino-Essay, NOTFILM (2015, 129 mins), Ross Lipman explores the...

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Shooting the Past (1999)

Director

Stephen Poliakoff

Producer

John Chapman

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 183 minutes), £15.99

Television drama in which a well-known photo library is taken over by a large American company but the librarians intend to save it and feel that the key may lie in the pictures it contains. Through...

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Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972 Video)

Director

Rod Graham

Producer

Alan Bridges

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 70 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Dennis Potter’s play in which a disturbed television actor overwhelmed with disgust at the misery of life takes refuge in the false security of psychiatry and anti-depressant drugs, knowing that they only...

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Kid in the Corner (1999 Video)

Director

Billie Eltringham

Producer

Kate Anthony

Subject

Drama; Social welfare

Distribution

VHS (161 minutes), £15.00

Drama about a young couple under strain because of the hyperactive behaviour of their young son. The first programme deals with how the family copes with their son prior to learning about ADHD. The following...

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