Season 1
0This acclaimed film project includes all 19 plays of Samuel Beckett, considered the most significant Irish playwright of the 20th century. Many of these outstanding filmed productions have received critical acclaim at prestigious international film festivals around the world including New York, Toronto and Venice. Beckett on Film has brought together some of the most noted directors of our day including: Atom Egoyan, Damien Hirst, Neil Jordan, Conor McPherson, Damien O'Donnell, David Mamet, Anthony Minghella, Karel Reisz and Patricia Rozema. A list of distinguished actors including exceptional performances by Michael Gambon, the late Sir John Gielgud, John Hurt, Jeremy Irons, Julianne Moore, Harold Pinter, Alan Rickman and Kirsten Scott-Thomas.
Episodes
1. Waiting For Godot
Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.
• 113 min
2. Endgame
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
• 81 min
3. Happy Days
A middle-aged woman, half-buried in the earth, chatters away to a taciturn man, who lives in a hole behind her. Later, she is buried up to her neck, and the man does not seem to be about.
• 77 min
4. Act Without Words I
• 15 min
5. Act Without Words II
• 10 min
6. Krapp's Last Tape
• 60 min
7. Rough for Theatre I
• 18 min
8. Rough for Theatre II
• 28 min
9. Play
• 16 min
10. Come and Go
• 8 min
11. Breath
• 1 min
12. Not I
• 14 min
13. That Time
• 19 min
14. Footfalls
• 27 min
15. A Piece of Monologue
• 19 min
16. Rockaby
• 14 min
17. Ohio Impromptu
• 11 min
18. Catastrophe
• 6 min
19. What Where
• 12 min