What could be better than a team up between absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett, and cinema’s great clown Buster Keaton? Add to that, a story that’s nothing more than a chase scene boiled down to ...

"Even in that horrible place, they couldn't turn off the stars..." Magnolia has revealed an official trailer for the film titled Dance First, an intriguing biopic about the life of literary genius ...

Gabriel Byrne plays the Nobel Prize-winning playwright in the "Theory of Everything" director's latest. James Marsh is continuing his biopic filmography 10 years after “The Theory of Everything” ...

In this exclusive clip from "Dance First," a young Samuel Beckett meets James Joyce in Paris for the first time. In "Dance First," Irish actors Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O'Shea masterfully play Beckett, ...

Samuel Beckett titled his one film Film, but the work itself, while arresting, is never as bold as that title. Beckett’s 1965 short, starring Buster Keaton, is more A Film than The Film, a study of a ...

Beckett’s work is mostly about inaction. “Nothing happens – it’s a masterpiece,” marvels a BBC producer. However, writing as an occupation isn’t very cinematic so Marsh recasts the magician of ...

When the Irish actor Gabriel Byrne was first approached to play the role of Samuel Beckett, one of Ireland’s greatest literary heroes, he hesitated. “I wrestled with the idea,” Byrne says on a recent ...

BroadwayWorld is excited to share an exclusive clip from Dance First, the new film about playwright and literary figure Samuel Beckett. The scene depicts a tense moment between Beckett, his wife ...

Streaming platforms for Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett) haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.

Beckett on Film was a project aimed at making film versions of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett's stage plays, with the exception of the early and unperformed Eleutheria. This endeavour was successfully ...

Stephen Prina may have been one of the first to see a deeper pattern in Mr. Reeves’s work. By Jesse McKinley All four characters in this bleak tragicomedy, staged by the Druid theater company, share ...