Shot mostly in handsome monochrome, James Marsh's San Sebastián closer covers the essential relationships in the life of a literary luminary, but sheds little light on his work or its resonance. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Dance First,” a portrait of Irish writer Samuel Beckett starring Gabriel Byrne and directed by Oscar winner James Marsh, will ...

What could be better than a team up between absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett, and cinema’s great clown Buster Keaton? Add to that, a story that’s nothing more than a chase scene boiled down to ...

Samuel Beckett titled his one film Film, but the work itself, while arresting, is never as bold as that title. Beckett’s 1965 short, starring Buster Keaton, is more A Film than The Film, a study of a ...

Beckett’s work is mostly about inaction. “Nothing happens – it’s a masterpiece,” marvels a BBC producer. However, writing as an occupation isn’t very cinematic so Marsh recasts the magician of ...

Beckett on Film was a project aimed at making film versions of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett's stage plays, with the exception of the early and unperformed Eleutheria. This endeavour was successfully ...

Aidan Gillen, who played Littlefinger in “Game of Thrones,” and Sandrine Bonnaire, a best actress winner at Venice for “La cérémonie,” have joined Gabriel Byrne in Samuel Beckett biopic “Dance First,” ...

Gabriel Byrne plays the Irish Nobel Prize-winning writer in the drama from the 'The Theory of Everything' director. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Dance First, a biographical drama from The ...

UK director James Marsh’s literary biopic Dance First, starring Gabriel Byrne as iconic Irish writer Samuel Beckett, will close the 71st San Sebastian Film Festival. The film is sold by London and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Tony nominee Gabriel Byrne will play the Nobel Prize-winning playwright in the ...

“Dance First,” a portrait of Irish writer Samuel Beckett starring Gabriel Byrne and directed by Oscar winner James Marsh, will close this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival, playing out of competition ...