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January 1, 1970

Season 1

This 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.

01. Waiting For Godot

Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.

1h 53min

02. 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.

1h 21min

03. 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.

1h 17min

04. Act Without Words I

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15min

05. Act Without Words II

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10min

06. Krapp's Last Tape

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1h 0min

07. Rough for Theatre I

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18min

08. Rough for Theatre II

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28min

09. Play

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16min

10. Come and Go

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8min

11. Breath

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1min

12. Not I

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14min

13. That Time

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19min

14. Footfalls

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27min

15. A Piece of Monologue

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19min

16. Rockaby

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14min

17. Ohio Impromptu

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11min

18. Catastrophe

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6min

19. What Where

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12min