Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film (2003)

10.0/10 • 52 min • Documentary

Overview

Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of writer Samuel Beckett's nineteen stage plays. The documentary features excerpts from the "Beckett on Film" versions of "Not I", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Endgame", "What Where", and "Waiting for Godot".

Cast

Alan Moloney

Self - Producer

Joe Mulholland

Self - Executive Producer (RTE)

Stephen Brennan

Self - Lucky ("Waiting for Godot")

John Crowley

Self - Director ("Come and Go")

Paola Dionisotti

Self - From "Come and Go"(archive footage)

Atom Egoyan

Self - Director ("Krapp's Last Tape")

Sean Foley

Self - Man ("Act Without Words I")

Michael Gambon

Self - Hamm (archive footage)

John Gielgud

Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")

John Hurt

Self / Self - Krapp ("Krapp's Last Tape")

Jeremy Irons

Self - Reader / Self - Listener ("Ohio Impromptu")

Neil Jordan

Self - Director ("Not I")

Pat Kinevane

Self (archive footage)

Gary Lewis

Self (archive footage)

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Self - Director ("Waiting for Godot")

Rosaleen Linehan

Self - From "Happy Days"(archive footage)

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