Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.

April 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 50

Total Comments: 20

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Krapp’s Last Tape / from BECKETT ON FILM / Ireland / 2002

Make time for this one. Well, one should should always have a thoughtful hour or two to spare for Samuel Beckett On Film or otherwise. John Hurt is magnificently tragic as Krapp, a 69 year old alcoholic, who realizes after listening to a tape he recorded 30 years prior that he ended a relationship which proved to be the best thing in his life.

The usual Beckett approaches are employed but work astonishingly well here. The more I look at the 19 plays in the complete box set the more I’m impressed with the handling of Beckett’s explicitly theatrical yet unbelievably static stage directions. It’s fairly easy to see how a film treatment can bring out visual subtleties and nuances missed in live theatrical productions. And the performances, for the most part (and the production value, in general), are so first rate that even a listening proves rewarding. Krapp’s Last Tape is one of the high points.

by Marlin Tyree | Source: Ambrose DVD Boxed Set
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