Film adaptations of two Samuel Beckett plays Not I and Krapp's Last Tape, were screened in New York City on September as part of the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. The films are a part of the ambitious project to film all of Beckett's 19 plays and is being produced by Michael Colgan of the Gate Theater and Alan Moloney. Eight of the plays have been filmed so far and … [Read more...] about Seeing Beckett on the Silver Screen
Film & Television
Film Forum: No Non-Irish Need Apply?
Ethnic casting issues in movies. Our moviegoing experience would be much diminished if we had never had the chance to see Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia, Greer Garson as Mrs. Miniver, Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, or Kenneth Branagh as Henry V. We would have been equally impoverished if we had not seen Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara … [Read more...] about Film Forum: No Non-Irish Need Apply?
All About Aidan
By Darina Molloy
June / July 1999
If Aidan Quinn were any more laid back he'd be horizontal. He's just lolled his way through a two-hour photo shoot, and is now sprawled on the other side of a tiny table in a charming old bar on Manhattan's lower west side. Clearly savoring the large cigar he's sucking on contentedly, he's turned sideways in his chair, lazily surveying the Friday afternoon stragglers indulging … [Read more...] about All About Aidan