Drama - Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Atom Egoyan, Damien Hirst, Neil Jordan, Conor McPherson, David Mamet, Anthony Minghella - Original Language: English - Classification: Exempt
A compilation of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett's films, bringing together some of the world's most talented actors and directors. Includes: 'Waiting For Godot', 'What Where', 'End... more
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Advantages: Faithful to the original text, and so much effort was put into the films Disadvantages: Wished to find more prominent actors in them
Beckett on Film DVD
The 4-DVD box set consists of 19 film adaptations of plays by Samuel Beckett. These plays are: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, Act Without Words I, Act Without Words II, Krapp's Last Tape, Rough for Theatre I, Rough for Theatre II, Play, Come and Go, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, What Where.
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To start with, I will not talk about each of these plays ... ...Exempt
Studio: Tyrone Productions
DVD Release Date: 23 May 2005
Run Time: 647 minutes
For more information about each of the plays included in this project, go to .
Summary: Highly recommended especially for students of literature, and those who love Beckett enough to watch this entire project. ...
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Actor(s): Alan Rickman, Julianne Moore, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, John Hurt, Harold Pinter, John Gielgud, Jeremy Irons
Director(s): Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Atom Egoyan, Damien Hirst, Neil Jordan, Conor McPherson, David Mamet, Anthony Minghella
Genre: Drama
Classification: Exempt
Running Time: 10 hours 47 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: A compilation of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett's films, bringing together some of the world's most talented actors and directors. Includes: 'Waiting For Godot', 'What Where', 'End Game', Rockaby', 'Come And Go', 'Footfalls', 'Play' and 'Piece Of A Monologue'.
DVD Description
A compilation of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett's films, bringing together some of the world's most talented actors and directors. Includes: 'Waiting For Godot', 'What Where', 'End Game', Rockaby', 'Come And Go', 'Footfalls', 'Play' and 'Piece Of A Monologue'.
Release details
Studio(s): TYRONE PRODUCTIONS; WORLD CINEMA
Release date: 23/05/2005
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: CLA 540
Barcode: 5391500385403
Author: Samuel Beckett
Languages
Main Language: English
Professional reviews
Review: Commendably ambitious and remarkably successful, a truly unique collection (The Irish Times, )
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