Beckett on Film

[Jed Kelestron]

Also see Gary Indiana's review in the current bookforum. 



On Mar 3, 2012, at 9:11 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> lovely review by John Banville on new volume of Beckett's letters from pre-and post war period
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> 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)
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> 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. 
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> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/22/beckett-storming-beauty/
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> rich
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> 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
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> http://www.beckettonfilm.com/
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