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Beckett On Film [DVD]
enlarge	Directors: Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Atom Egoyan, Damien Hirst, Neil Jordan, Conor McPherson Actors: Alan Rickman, Julianne Moore, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, John Hurt Studio: Tyrone Productions Category: DVD List Price: ~~£99.99 (EUR146.79)~~ Buy New: £70.26 (EUR103.14) as of 31/7/2010 13:34 IST details You Save: £29.73 (EUR43.64) (30%) In Stock New (13) Used (3) from £65.00 (EUR95.42) Seller: moviemars-usa Rating: 3 reviews Sales Rank: 14,421 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Exempt Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 647 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.1 EAN: 5390537900160 ASIN: B0006IGMPS Release Date: May 23, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Genius on show July 1, 2009 P. J. Keane (South Shields) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful Given the strictness of the Beckett estate on the staging of his work, the imagination and variety here are staggering. Excellent casting and performances help but the real star here is the writer. Existentially challenging but also deeply tender and and unexpectedly funny. Despite a forbidding reputation, watching Beckett in performance is an uplifting experience, and the opportunity to have them all together is too good to miss. Cheap at double the price. Buy it. Absolutely Superb January 23, 2009 pkx166h (United Kingdom) 16 out of 17 found this review helpful This 4DVD Box set contains cinematic versions of all 19 plays that Beckett wrote. Each play has a different director and set of actors (including among others John Geiguid (his last ever appearance on screen or stage), Alan Rickman, Juliet Stephenson, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott-Thomas and many more) so it isn't simply a 'rep's' perspective of all the plays. Nor are they simply films of the play being acted on a stage, the point of the 'Becket on Film' project being to bring Beckett to the big screen using cinematic techniques. Each DVD also contains a short 'addenda' programme explaining the history and salient points of the plays with an occasioinal interview with the director of the plays that are on their respective DVDs. There is also a short documentary on the final DVD describing the whole project of putting the plays onto the 'big screen', how it came about in the first place and the difficulties and objections/critiques of putting Beckett on film. Without going into the pros and cons of making Beckett plays into a cinematic experience; for the unitiated this is an ideal introduction to the canon. Indeed I have seen 'Godot' many times on stage, but the version here is, in my own opinion, the best one I have had the pleasure to watch. Not all of the plays of Becket are immeidiately accessible as has been said, but this project takes a giant step forward in bringing Beckett to the masses. While not cheap, I grant you, I cannot recommend this enough and will be something you will watch over and over again. 'Time Passes. Now with words' March 29, 2006 29 out of 32 found this review helpful This set is intriguing, beguiling, captivating and frustrating. I'm no Beckett purist, so I found some of the liberties taken with the films, such as 'What Where' the most exciting pieces on this set. 'Play', however, is the high point here, with the perfect marriage of Beckett's text and a thoroughly visceral use of camera. There is little negative to say apart from the actual DVD design itself, with the same snatch of music used for every menu, and the same interviews included in both the extras accompanying the plays and the documentary about the project. This makes the high price for this set a little hard to bear. But the films themselves are worth it...

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