Beckett on Film - Deluxe Box Set

Alan Rickman (Actor), Julianne Moore (Actor), Michael Lindsay-Hogg (Director), Atom Egoyan (Director) | Rated: Exempt | Format: DVD

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• Actors: Alan Rickman, Julianne Moore, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, John Hurt
• Directors: Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Atom Egoyan, Damien Hirst, Neil Jordan, Conor McPherson
• Format: PAL
• Language English
• Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Classification: Exempt
• Studio: Tyrone Productions
• DVD Release Date: 23 May 2005

 

Read customer Reviews first  before decision spend your money buy Beckett on Film: Deluxe Box Set (DVD). 

This 4DVD Box set contains cinematic versions of all nineteen plays that Beckett wrote. Each play has a different director and set of actors (including among others John Geiguid (his last ever appearance on screen or stage), Alan Rickman, Juliet Stephenson, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott-Thomas and lots of more) thus it is not simply a 'rep's' perspective of all the plays. 

Nor are they simply films of the play being acted on a stage, the purpose of the 'Becket on Film' project being to bring Beckett to the big screen using cinematic techniques. Each DVD additionally contains a brief 'addenda' programme explaining the history and salient points of the plays with an occasioinal interview with the director of the plays that are on their respective DVDs. 

There's also a brief documentary on the final DVD describing the whole project of putting the plays onto the 'big screen', how it came about in the first place and the difficulties and objections/critiques of putting Beckett on film. 

Without going into the pros and cons of making Beckett plays into a cinematic experience; for the unitiated this is an ideal introduction to the canon. Indeed I have seen 'Godot' many times on stage, however the version here is, in my own opinion, the best one I have had the pleasure to watch. 

Not all of the plays of Becket are immeidiately accessible as has been said, but this project takes an enormous step forward in bringing Beckett to the masses.

 

Buy Films on DVD: Angel And The Badman / John Wayne On Film [1947] [DVD] [1999]

John Wayne (Actor), Larry Moses (Actor) | Rated: Universal, suitable for all | Format: DVD

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• Actors: John Wayne, Larry Moses
• Format: Box set, PAL
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Classification: U
• Studio: Delta Music Plc
• DVD Release Date: 1 Nov 1999
• Run Time: 130 minutes

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English
Region 0
Introduction By Tony Curtis
Additional Bonus Footage Of John Wayne

Angel And The Badman is the classic story of a gunman who must choose between a Quaker woman and his guns. John Wayne plays Quart Evans, a characteristic rough, tough, womanising gunslinger who is taken in by a Quaker family after being wounded in a fight. 

While the family nurse him back to health he falls in love with the daughter who is played by Gail Russell and of course she returns his affection against the wishes of her stringent family. 

Though the story is predictable ... boy meets girl, boy likes girl, girl returns affection but her parents don't approve of him etc. the film is brimming with action scenes, which holds your attentiveness. But dissimilar modern day films the message is clear in that it upholds the idea of peace and the fact that violence is not the answer. 

It is refreshing to watch a film, which holds your attention but that does not have explosions, shootings and car chases every 5 seconds. This combined with the exciting views landscapes of the Arizona landscape makes this film a cinema classic and a must for John Wayne fans. The biography on John Wayne and an introduction from Tony Curtis is the icing on the cake!

 

Buy Films on DVD: Miracle On 34th Street [1994]

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Richard Attenborough (Actor), Elizabeth Perkins (Actor), Les Mayfield (Director) | Rated: Universal, suitable for all | Format: DVD 

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• Actors: Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, J.T. Walsh, James Remar
• Directors: Les Mayfield
• Writers: John Hughes, George Seaton, Valentine Davies
• Producers: Bill Ryan, John Hughes, William S. Beasley
• Format: PAL
• Language English
• Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, English
• Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Classification: U
• Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: 7 Nov 2005
• Run Time: 114 minutes

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Special Features

1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.0 English
Dolby Digital 5.0
Scene Access
Interactive Menus

How can words describe one third of this films goodness? It's a remake of the classic film but with good actors like Richard Attenborough as Kris Kringle. When Dorey Walker (Elizabeth Perkins) hires a seemingly insignificant elderly gentleman (Kris Kringle) to be their Cole's Santa she has no plan of the success it might bring Cole's. 

Just as every thing in life is peachy, Cole's rivals plan to discredit Santa by framing him. When it goes to court to make a decision weather Kris Kringle is a nut case as he believes he's Santa |it's up to the judge to make a decision if Santa Clause is real, difficult all that's good and pure about Christmas. It is time to ask your-self "Do you think in Santa?"