- This commemorative, immersive black and white film based on Don Nigro's play takes us back into the shooting of Irish literary lion Samuel Beckett's one and only film made in July of 1964, fifty years ago this year... the odd, now iconic 'FILM,' which was a cinematic treatment of the philosophic principle of George Lord Berkeley that to be is to be perceived ('esse est percipi'). It featured silent film star Buster Keaton trying to escape perception, even from himself, in one of his very last but most memorable roles. Some comedy, some drama, some history, some biography and a lot of imaginative filmmaking.—Anonymous
- Fifty years ago, in July of 1964, on the occasion of the filming of Samuel Beckett's one and only film in Brooklyn, the odd iconic "FILM," the Irish literary lion would meet with silent film star Buster Keaton in an Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village where in the midst of the cultural shifts and changes of that year they would talk of vaudeville and Hollywood, silent films, Fatty Arbuckle and Beckett's strange script. But they are soon captivated by a Bohemian waitress with acting ambitions who thinks she recognizes Mr. Keaton but confuses him with Moe of The Three Stooges and Lon Chaney among others until she remembers Mr. Keaton's legendary performance as both Romeo AND Juliet and explains to the two famous men in the simplest terms the importance of their work and the very meaning of their lives.
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