Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence documentary (1991)

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  @ManufacturingIntellect · 7 years ago (edited) · pinned

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• WI

  @winstonsmith8240 · 5 years ago

  Q: What time is it?<br>A:. Same as usual.<br>Genius.

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• SI

  @simasdata · 4 years ago

  Sober, sumptuous, illuminating, Enough, not enough, all Beckett told.

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  @NeverMindTheSnow · 8 years ago

  I love those words at the beginning.<br>&quot;He has declined to celebrate or affirm anything in human life&quot;.

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• WH

  @Whatzzzz999 · 5 years ago

  On late Beckett: &apos;The less there is to say, the better it is said. It is sumptuous minimalism.&apos; &nbsp;Perfect..!

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• SI

  @simonegad · 6 years ago

  I Really Love Samuel Beckett and James Joyce. And these documentaries.

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• AR

  @arieldovlindgren · 8 years ago

  This Film about Samuel Beckett I find beautifully made. <br>Sensitive voices with musical illustrations that make sense and just not a continuous background setting; <br>the flute with its sad theme; the music by Schubert...<br>And last but not least, the beautiful poetical English; <br>like music to my ears.

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• PO

  @poetcomic1 · 4 years ago

  One annoying mistake. &nbsp;Beckett was in the highly successfull &apos;Gloire&apos; resistance group and they were betrayed by one of the most evil men imaginable. He was Father Robert Alesch who ran his parish and often gave bold anti-German sermons and cultivated a trusted place in the resistance. &nbsp;This human monster would serve mass by day and in the evenings sneak out to his sumptuous apartment with his two mistresses. He worked the whole time for the Gestapo who paid him a bonus for every extra name he gave them. &nbsp;Father Alesch would cultivate fatherly relationships with young people, draw them to the resistance and then betray them to the Nazis, getting so much per name. These were tortured and murdered. This is the man who betrayed Beckett and Suzanne and killed so many of his friends,. &nbsp;Alesch was captured in 1949 and shot by firing squad. &nbsp;HE is a human monster. You cannot understand Beckett without knowing the terror, the endless waiting the grief of betrayal of those years.

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• JA

  @Jack-oi6uz · 9 months ago

  Born on Friday 13th...what a great start!😂

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  @Jan96106 · 5 years ago

  Beckett has a wonderful sense of humor. This makes him sound like a ghoul.

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  @mark9105 · 5 years ago (edited)

  My overarching takeaway from Samuel Beckett is the futility of understanding, life&apos;s great booby prize. If one day we understand all the mysteries of the universe, so what? We will only have discovered that it all means nothing, that we have been pursuing a fool&apos;s errand. There is no meaning in an indifferent cosmos. Tis better just to enjoy the incredible richness that every moment of living offers than to chase a chimera.

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• ED

  @edwardenglishonline · 3 months ago

  What a delightful, thoughtfully produced documentary. I was mesmerized! Thank you for uploading! (Liked &amp; subscribed(