Samuel Beckett's Rough for Theatre I

Samuel Beckett's Rough for Theatre I


directed by Kieron J. Walsh
starring David Kelly & Milo O'Shea


from the Beckett on Film collection

W. G. Sebald | 92Y Readings

 W. G. Sebald at 92nd Street Y. October 15, 2001.

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Julian Sands reads Harold Pinter's Poetry

Julian Sands reads Harold Pinter's Poetry
from OBB / Off Broadway Booking 
on Vimeo.

Salinger - Official Trailer - Weinstein Company

Salinger features interviews with 150 subjects including Salinger's friends, colleagues,
and members of his inner circle who have never spoken on the record before
as well as film footage, photographs and other material that has never been seen.

Additionally, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, John Cusack, Danny DeVito,
John Guare, Martin Sheen, David Milch, Robert Towne, Tom Wolfe, E.L. Doctorow,
Gore Vidal and Pulitzer Prize winners A. Scott Berg and Elizabeth Frank talk about
Salinger's influence on their lives, their work and the broader culture.

The film is the first work to get beyond the Catcher in the Rye author's
meticulously built up wall: his childhood, painstaking work methods,
marriages, private world and the secrets
he left behind after his death in 2010.

In select theaters September 6th, 2013.

Five Minutes with Will Self

Five Minutes with Will Self

Jorge Luis Borges : The Mirror

Jorge Luis Borges, the mirror 
from Ana Valdes 
on Vimeo.

Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable [extract] : read by Sean Barrett

Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable 
[Extract] read by Sean Barrett


"Where now? Who now? When now? Unquestioning. I, say I. Unbelieving.
Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going,
call that on. Can it be that one day, off it goes on, that one day I simply stayed in,
in where, instead of going out, in the old way, out to spend day and night
as far away as possible, it wasn't far. Perhaps that is how it began. You think
you are simply resting, the better to act when the time comes, or for no reason,
and you soon find yourself powerless ever to do anything again. No matter how
it happened. It, say it, not knowing what. Perhaps I simply assented at last
to an old thing. But I did nothing. I seem to speak, it is not I, about me,
it is not about me. These few general remarks to begin with. What am I to do,
what shall I do, what should I do, in my situation, how proceed? By aporia
pure and simple? Or by affirmations and negations invalidated as uttered,
or sooner or later? Generally speaking. There must be other shifts. Otherwise
it would be quite hopeless. But it is quite hopeless. I should mention before
going any further, any further on, that I say aporia without knowing what it means.
Can one be ephectic otherwise than unawares? I don't know. With the yesses
and noes it is different, they will come back to me as I go along and how,
like a bird, to shit on them all without exception. The fact would seem to be,
if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak
of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting,
but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to,
I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never
be silent. Never.

I shall not be alone, in the beginning. I am of course alone. Alone. That is soon said.
Things have to be soon said. And how can one be sure, in such darkness?
I shall have company. In the beginning. A few puppets. Then I'll scatter them,
to the winds, if I can. And things, what is the correct attitude to adopt towards things?
And, to begin with, are they necessary? What a question. But I have few illusions,
things are to be expected. The best is not to decide anything, in this connection,
in advance. If a thing turns up, for some reason or another, take it into consideration.
Where there are people, it is said, there are things. Does this mean that when you
admit the former you must also admit the latter? Time will tell. The thing to avoid,
I don't know why, is the spirit of system. People with things, people without things,
things without people, what does it matter, I flatter myself it will not take me long
to scatter them, whenever I choose, to the winds. I don't see how. The best would be
not to begin. But I have to begin. That is to say I have to go on. Perhaps in the end
I shall smother in a throng. Incessant coming and goings, the crush and bustle
of a bargain sale. No, no danger. Of that."

Vladimir Nabokov: Life and 'Lolita' | BBC Documentary

Vladimir Nabokov: Life and Lolita

A documentary produced by the BBC


via A Piece of Monologue

Judy Blume's 'Tiger Eyes' : Trailer from Tashmoo Productions | via #Vimeo

Tiger Eyes - Trailer 
from Tashmoo Productions
on Vimeo.


Coming June 7 to Theaters and Video On Demand.
Tiger Eyes marks the first major motion picture adaptation from the work
of iconic author Judy Blume, whose books have sold more than
82 million copies in 41 countries.

Davey is a 17 year-old girl abruptly relocated by her grieving mother
to the strange “atom bomb” town of Los Alamos, New Mexico.
With the sudden and violent death of her father, the displaced Davey
no longer knows who to be or how to fit in.
Everything that once mattered suddenly seems insignificant.
But when she meets Wolf, a mysterious young Native-American,
while exploring the surrounding canyons, she feels he is able to see
past her pain and into her true self. The connection they make brings Davey
back from the edge and sets her on a journey from heartbreak and confusion
to transformation as she discovers love and life after tragedy.


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Philip Roth : The PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award

The PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award honors a writer
whose critically acclaimed work has drawn a wide audience and helps
us to understand the human condition in original and powerful ways.
The 2013 recipient of the award was Philip Roth.


via apieceofmonologue.com

Denise Levertov reads Six of Her Poems

Denise Levertov reads six poems from her later collections, three from EVENING TRAIN (1992) and three later included in her posthumously published collection SANDS OF THE WELL (1998). This is an extract from an hour-long reading she gave for the Lannan Foundation in Los Angeles on 7 December 1993. The poems are: 'Settling', 'Open Secret', 'Tragic Error', 'The Danger Moment', 'A Gift' and 'For Those Whom the Gods Love Less', three of which were also included in her SELECTED POEMS (New Directions, 2002), which was published in Britain as NEW SELECTED POEMS (Bloodaxe Books, 2003):
http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepag...

Denise Levertov (1923-97) was born in Essex, and educated at home by her father, a Russian Jewish immigrant, who became an Anglican priest, and by her Welsh mother. In 1948, she emigrated to America, where she was acclaimed by Kenneth Rexroth in The New York Times as 'the most subtly skilful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most modest, the most moving,' and during the following decades she became 'a poet who may just be the finest writing in English today' (Kirkus Reviews). Throughout her life, she worked also as a political activist, campaigning tirelessly for civil rights and environmental causes, and against the Vietnam War, the Bomb and US-backed regimes in Latin America.

This video is copyright Lannan Foundation 1994 and posted on YouTube with the permission of the Lannan Foundation.

Leonard Cohen reads “The Future”

Leonard Cohen reads “The Future”

(via Open Culture)

Harold Bloom : "How to Read and Why"

Renowned literary scholar Harold Bloom in a candid interview on C-SPAN.
In this 4th installment of the discussion, Bloom gives earnest & enthusiastic praise
to American novelist Cormac McCarthy and his epic Western novel Blood Meridian.


Originally aired: June 28th, 2000

"Each man is the bard of his own existence." - Cormac McCarthy, 'Cities of the Plain'

Quote:

"Each man is the bard of his own existence." 
- Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain