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NOTFILM
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Release date : Oct 17, 2015
 
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Completed - ENGLISH - Art - Culture, Biography, Documentary - 128 minutes

Log Line

NOTFILM is a feature-length essay on Samuel Beckett's FILM production and its philosophical implications, utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements. Starring Buster Keaton and Barney Rosset.

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Ross LIPMAN
Writer(s) : Ross LIPMAN
Cast : Samuel BECKETT, Buster KEATON, Billie WHITELAW, Barney ROSSET, Kevin BROWNLOW, James KAREN, S. E. GONTARSKI, James KNOWLSON, Leonard MALTIN, Steve SCHAPIRO, Judith DOUW, Jean SCHNEIDER, Haskel WEXLER, Jeanette SEAVER, Alan SCHNEIDER

Producer(s) : Amy HELLER (MILESTONE FILM & VIDEO), Dennis DOROS (MILESTONE FILM & VIDEO)

Synopsis

In 1964 author Samuel Beckett set out on one of the strangest ventures in cinematic history: his embattled collaboration with silent era genius Buster Keaton on the production of a short avant-garde film. Beckett was nearing the peak of his fame, which would culminate in his receiving a Nobel Prize five years later. Keaton, in his waning years, never lived to see Beckett’s canonization. The film they made along with director Alan Schneider, renegade publisher Barney Rosset, and Academy Award-winning cinematographer Boris Kaufman, has been the subject of praise, condemnation, and controversy for decades. Yet the eclectic participants are just one part of a story that stretches to the very birth of cinema, and spreads out to our understanding of human consciousness itself.

NOTFILM is a feature-length essay on FILM’s production and its philosophical implications, utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.

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Country(ies) : USA, UNITED KINGDOM

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Festivals and Awards

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