Beckett on Film

[rich]

lovely review by John Banville on new volume of Beckett's letters from
pre-and post war period

from intro to letters and quoted in the review, this written by Dan Gunn
which is pretty damn fine (and almost Pynchon-like in ardor style)

Just when one might expect umbrage and infuriation—at the years spent in
hiding, at the loss of numerous friends deported and dead, at the
disastrous conditions in the ruins of the bombed Normandy town of Saint-Lô
where [after the war] he works for the Irish Red Cross—what one in fact
finds is resignation and reticence; gone, or almost, are the fizzling
tirades of the early years, the self-pity, the rancour, and the occasional
self-indulgent displays of cleverness, almost as if so much suffering
witnessed had put the cap forever on a merely personal expression of
disadvantage or misprision; as if, perhaps, the sight of so much brutal
activity had confirmed him for ever in his inclination to a—however
paradoxically rigorous and positively charged—*passivity*.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/22/beckett-storming-beauty/

rich

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> E.g., ...
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b542GxhzYiw
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkkEDZO5f0s
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbtziA15guU
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOUf5etSTRo
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> http://www.ubu.com/film/beckett_film.html
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> http://www.ubu.com/film/beckett.html
>
> http://www.beckettonfilm.com/
>
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