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Don't know why people are complaining about this documentary. This was made in the 1990s interviewing many of Beckett's contemporaries. For a man born in 1906, it's bound to be slow as most of the interviewees are over the age of 70. Most of these people are probably dead now, so this documentary is an important archive about people who knew him when he was a young man and the early part of his career.

@supergrahamg

2 жыл бұрын

don't bother taking issue with idiots

Great upload. I love looking at these programs on old poets, painters. Slice of time and history. So full of melancholy. Deeply intrigued.

Words fail me...Simply Wonderful... What a jewel, What a treasure of a discovery.....Thank you so so much...

2 жыл бұрын

Fail again. Fail better.

A profound, melancholy, beautiful, poetic documentary to cover the life of a profound, melancholy, beautiful, poetic man

I found this deeply moving and indeed informative and thought-provoking. Thank you.

A treat of a documentary.

Many thanks, the best documentary about Samuel Beckett I've seen.

I just stumbled across your site and have fallen in love with the inundation of education! Thanks. You have a new faithful follower

Great site. Thank you for these great uploads.

Wonderful documentary, Thank you so much for your fascinating channel

A wonderful and touching documentary, thank you.

bravo, brilliant documentary, thanks for the upload

... Manufacturing Intellect. Merci Infiniment.

An exceptional man and a very, very great artist.

An amazing life to watch.thank you.

The French actor requested is Jean Martin and can also be seen in Fred Zinnemans movie The Day of the Jackal. Delphine Seyrig who funded original production of Godot also appears in that movie.

Thank you for these jewels in the sunse of my life. Dorothy Gloria.

Thank you.

@20:01 Same tune we learned in school, but it was called, "If You Should Go to Venice."

superb docu

The greatest irony of Krapp's Last Tape, perhaps Beckett's most autobiographical play, is in the title. "Not with the fire in me now", he says, a statement looking to the future, on the last of all his birthday tapes.

Beautiful

"No I regret nothing, only being born. Dying is such a long, tiresome business I always found." Wowzas ...

@PetroicaRodinogaster264

3 жыл бұрын

long and tiresome for some but annoyingly short for so many. What a selfish thing for him to say.

@SkyTortoiseFerryman

3 жыл бұрын

@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 It's a quote from one of his works, not a personal statement

@illuminate5

3 жыл бұрын

Idiot

🙂 thank you.

history we need more of this

@peterplotts1238

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, a new and very "improved" version of it is being created before our very eyes. The new and improved history clears out all that irrelevant clutter about individual human beings making choices, creating, or destroying. These obsolete notions have been discarded and replaced with more useful and relevant ideas: "race", "class", "forces" and above all, "power".

Un hombre que supo convertirse en un icono.

Yes, a good version.

Sam was a genius & gift to humanity #peacemake

VERY GOOD'

A shame the sound keeps dropping out. One can't help but wonder what is being missed. Could it be that they're just musical interludes that are cut for copyright reasons?????

@patfraser3869

3 жыл бұрын

Could it be that you complain too much, it sounds good to me

Finally finished

That French actor who was acting out some of the Lucky soliloquy, thinking...... Oh my god He is amazing!!!! Who is he?? I was enthralled!! He explained it and then he disappeared into the character. It was amazing to watch. What an amazing way to play the part. This guy is amazing. I wonder who he is

@robgoodd

3 жыл бұрын

Jean Martin

@ceaser500

3 жыл бұрын

@@robgoodd Thank you so much. Sincerely. Thank you. I really appreciate that you took the time to do that for me. What a kind person you are.

2 жыл бұрын

Jean Martin was the first actor to do Lucky.

1hr 16mins in: I couldn't agree more.....🇮🇪🇫🇷🇮🇪

What's the musical piece in the background?

@brandonwarweg3622

2 жыл бұрын

Impromptu in B-flat major by Franz Schubert

The greatest writer of the twentieth century

Billie Whitelaw is a wonderful singer!

Is Stephen Rea reading intermittently?

Waiting for Godot....longing yearning nothing happens yet .....

@DarkAngelEU

6 жыл бұрын

As it should, only man creates war and all the other f(r)ictions that make us wait for delivery.

@voulafisentzidis8830

5 ай бұрын

My nephew performed the monologue from Waiting For Godot in a college production. I cried as he was wonderful despite, as far as I am aware, having no interest in acting as a career.

Samuel Beckett liked our german art, language and culture. Proud to hear that.

2 жыл бұрын

He fought against nazism.

@Eyyoh755

2 жыл бұрын

@ ...but he liked german culture.

He also knew a young Andre the Giant in France and would give him rides to school!

becketts first novel actually was dream of fair to middling women

Pinter is your only man for Beckett. If you can't be arsed reading Beckett. Joyce spent most of his life claiming to be skint.

No mention of Barbara Bray? Seems an odd ommission maybe even deliberate.

Very sad

@1:38:45 he always managed to write a little more

can't hear for the loud noise

Ah Dublin....

Could anyone help me to understand what is said in 34.51 - 34.55? It's absolutely inaudible!

@andrewfrench6850

3 жыл бұрын

She says "But he was real(ly) casual, he wasn't a bit of bother, you know, he was very friendly"

True arts were accidental, agonized out and privy only to the suffering crowd.

Jesus. Painful. This is so badly done. There's just no way Beckett was this dull. This bloodless. Not possible. This doc. DID NOT talk to the right people.

Why is Joyce written out of this?

@supergrahamg

2 жыл бұрын

he wasn't, was he ? did you watch the same film that I did and the first section ? The documentary was about Beckett.

do more on the ira

Lucia?

@michaelcollins7738

3 жыл бұрын

Lucia, James Joyce's daughter.

such a pardox, that a smart man can chain smoke.....murdering his lungs/heart.

@MissPerriwinkle

3 жыл бұрын

the copious amt of nicotine made him lethargic

@supergrahamg

2 жыл бұрын

it is not as though the alternative was immortality...

8 ай бұрын

The campaing against tabagism is dated the end of the last century.

@21:11 just as Nietzsche, he felt in love with his cousin 😅

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the most celebrated writer of absurdity. Godot is about waiting and that's all. It's nothingness is somehow offered as something of value. I've never enjoyed it, don't support the theories around it, and think the author pulled some crap out of his ass and called it a play. why anyone would put such frustration and inane meandering on a page is beyond me. call it a day in line at the DMV and at least then it would seem to be relatable to others. Possibly the worst part of this very well done biography is the sweaty actor they have when they've dubbed over the Beckett tape recordings. This guy looks like he's getting an enema the whole time.

Thanks - surely that he was autistic!

The rude interruptions of American commercialism flogging rubbish spoils a good documentary…… the depravity of capitalism infects almost everything. Miss Jenny (music teacher, Manhattan).

@frankmorgandorfer893

Ай бұрын

Well said Miss Jenny Hirschowitz, Music Teacher, Manhatten.

Sam Beckett liked cricket - But I don’t. This is why: CRICKET is an anachronistic, goofy colonial burden of a game that should be phased out ASAP. This is how we will do it: ADIDAS, AUDI, BMW, Hugo Boss, Porsche and Volkswagen will donate 999 Million footballs to Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Later Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies. In five to ten years one of these great countries will qualify for FIFA World Cup. Trust me. Enough Cricket! Think about your children. Do you really want them to play Le CRICKET? Bangkok-Johnny CarSanook Media Thailand

@pipster1891

5 жыл бұрын

Go and have a lie down.

@doellt4753

5 ай бұрын

​​@@pipster1891No, you have a lie down. "Goofy colonial burden", have you no ears, no eyes? Not that I care at all for football, I don't. Cricket, however, takes the upper crust biscuit.

The way America mangles every foreign word and spits it out in its own image (It's Godot, not G,dow.) and then carries on as if this is acceptable. It isn't.

2 жыл бұрын

👏

HES NOT IRISH. TOSSER

@conorsullivan8108

3 жыл бұрын

Ah Jimmy did your ex boyfriend prefer listening to Krapp's Last Tape over your crap fast ****

@nozecone

2 жыл бұрын

?

My goodness. Very boring. This video is boring. They should let the writing speak for itself, because this is cheap and unfortunate.

@incubooker

4 жыл бұрын

Boring is not the clue of Beckett?

@damiendaviswatchmanofephra2660

4 жыл бұрын

@@incubooker that's Irish documentary for you. I sometimes think they are all just telling tall stories.

@conorsullivan8108

3 жыл бұрын

Without cheap and unfortunate, Beckett's works would be increate

@rayj7273

3 жыл бұрын

Oh come on, most of the people being interviewed are now dead. It's an important archive of people who knew him and the times he lived in. It's slow because most of the people who knew him in this video were over 75. But for me, it's important to hear their stories.

@shiftlessinseattle

3 жыл бұрын

@@rayj7273 Doesn't mean the retelling of their stories has to be boring and lacking any sort of artistry.

a true legend is Billie Whitelwaw