Samuel Beckett made one motion picture, the short, almost-silent avant-garde film, “Film,” starring Buster Keaton. In 1964, Beckett travelled to America for his first and only visit — to undertake the ...

“Becket,” producer Hal Wallis’ opulently entertaining film of Jean Anouilh’s play, is the tale of a wild and woolly British king and his God-intoxicated buddy, whom he unwisely appoints archbishop of ...

This is FRESH AIR. Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett wrote the screenplay for only one film and made his only trip to the U.S. to shoot it. It's a short silent film called "Film," released ...

Actor Peter O'Toole is up for an Oscar for his movie role in Venus. But he is also known for his best-actor nod in the 1964 film Becket. That movie has been restored and is back in theaters. To see ...

Oscar-winning scribe William Monahan (The Departed) has signed on to write/direct an adaptation of the 1959 Jean Anouilh play, Becket. Calling the project "an adaptation, or re-invigoration, of an ...