
Film
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003 · 52m · Documentary
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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")
Enda Hughes
Self - Director ("Act Without Words II")

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

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

Neil Jordan
Self - Director ("Not I")
Garrett Keogh
Self - Narrator (voice)

Pat Kinevane
Self (archive footage)
Pearse Lehane
Self - Interviewer
Crew
- Pearse LehaneDirector
- Samuel BeckettWriter
- Pearse LehaneWriter
- Larry MastersonProducer
- Alan MoloneyExecutive Producer
- Michael ColganExecutive Producer
- Isobel StephensonEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- February 5, 2003
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 52m
- Rated
- U
- Genres
- Documentary
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