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When Samuel Beckett Tried To Capture The Power of The Movies - The New Yorker
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creative genius that couldnt gel By Evan Osnos, David Remnick, and
Joshua Yaffa
into coherence. Yet, for all of its
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Beckett himself eventually
acknowledgedLipman !nds in
Film genuine insights about
Becketts work as a whole, and
even about the nature of the
movies. For Beckett, the cinema
was pregnant with exciting,
terrifying potential: the power to
burn onto celluloid a performers
likeness, his fears, his history, and
make him confront, in a
particularly modern way, his
mortality.
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