Showing posts with label Boris Kaufman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boris Kaufman. Show all posts

Monday, December 15, 2008

Samuel Beckett Meets Buster Keaton

Film (1965) by Samuel Beckett. Starring Buster Keaton.

"The greatest Irish film." – Gilles Deleuze
(Essays Critical and Clinical, University of Minnesota Press, 1997.)



[Note: Don't adjust your speakers. There is no sound, except for one brief moment.]

Cinematographer Boris Kaufman, brother of famous Soviet director Dziga Vertov, also did the cinematography for Jean Vigo's luminous L'Atalante, and for classic Hollywood films such as 12 Angry Men and On the Waterfront, for which he won an Academy Award.

Film was shot in Lower Manhattan on Beckett's only visit to the United States.