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.