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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...
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...
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...
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...
Documents the early life of Samuel Beckett. Martin Esslin talks about the playwright. Includes performances of ‘Ghost Trio’, '...But the Clouds...' and ‘Not I’.
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...
This six-part collection of adaptations of the works of Thomas Hardy was originally broadcast in the UK in 1973. The first episode was Hardy’s THE WITHERED ARM. Subsequent episodes include FELLOW TOWNSMAN,...
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...
Stephen Frears’ debut feature is an affectionate tribute to the Hollywood detective movies of the 1940s. A Liverpool bingo caller, Albert Finney, dreams of being a private eye and then finds himself...
Earliest extant British televised production of the play with black American actor, Gordon Heath, in the title role.
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