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ohio impromptu Posted by: adani
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Prelude no. 2 - villa lobos Posted by: adani
Video duration: 28 seconds villa lobos plays his own work Related: lobos, villa Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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By: adevezar. on 24 Nov 08, 04:38:37
Just unspoken words.
By: adevezar. on 07 Nov 08, 20:17:03
this was the best direction i ever seen about a play from Samuel Beckett. behond beutifull. Real.
By: 05119911. on 24 Oct 08, 01:54:40
im feeling emo nom nom nom!!!!! hehekekeke I feel like cybring! 5Y
By: wc3breakabone. on 16 Oct 08, 14:41:59
It's an interesting video... I like it... sorry for being off topic, but... wasn't Jeremy Irons the voice of Scar in The Lion King?
By: stucoy1. on 18 Sep 08, 20:50:10
Sorry I meant '...again his portion.'
By: stucoy1. on 18 Sep 08, 20:49:03
I love this, but I've never quite figured out what is meant by 'white nights now agin his portion.'
By: IpsaPaphum. on 07 Aug 08, 03:50:34
it's the irregular variant of spelled and a type of corn as well
By: wrachel745. on 07 Jul 08, 23:06:33
"spelt" is not a word
By: tvdd1973. on 18 Jun 08, 23:22:36
Surely their differing interpretations show that Beckett's intended ambiguity is powwerful enough to come through some clever directorial tricks and a bit of film "magic." I love this piece, absolutely love it.
By: tvdd1973. on 18 Jun 08, 23:20:42
You make some fine, lucid points. However, you mention Beckett's instruction that "they become as one." In a way the film shows that, no? Besides, I showed the film to some of my (admittedly bright) students. One felt that the listener had imagined the reader. One suggested the reader was a ghost but tangible and visible nonetheless. Another said he felt the reader was somehow seeing a vision of what he would become in the future and that Beckett is showing our "stories are already written."
By: ErikTonning. on 18 Jun 08, 21:38:29
Beckett said about "Waiting for Godot" that it was a play "striving at all costs to avoid definition". The problem with directors imposing a certain definite concept on a Beckett play (such as the "ghost story" in the present rendition of OI) is that it removes the intended ambiguity which throws all our questions back at us. Hence, the imposing director is actually depriving the audience of interpretative freedom. E.g. the text here says "they became as one"; the AS is elided in this version.
By: tvdd1973. on 15 Jun 08, 19:01:46
Whilst I accept that Beckett wanted very specific instructions followed I'm not sure that they allow for enough interpretation. If you're not going, as director, to interpret a text and try and allow that interpretation to flow to an audience then why bother EVER doing any Beckett? I agree that Irons, though a fine actor, is too young for the role. The suggestion that it's one man is a clever one and though Beckett would've hated it does that mean the rest of us shouldn't be allowed an opinion?
By: Carrieloo. on 12 Jun 08, 01:29:01
I disagree. I don't care what the books say.
By: ErikTonning. on 29 May 08, 16:14:02
In spite of liking Irons' voice I would agree with the 'overacting' comment below (SB requires expressionlessness, and there is too much fidgeting and breach of the basic posture required by the stage directions). Read Jonathan Kalb, "Beckett in Performance", for a fine account of the minimalist acting SB asks for and what it achieves. Also, note that the final fade-up on the single figure before the window would have had SB suing the producers before you could say "Fail better".
By: ErikTonning. on 29 May 08, 16:13:46
A bit of shameless self-advertisement (which may however help those studying the play for a course): See my book "Samuel Beckett's Abstract Drama: Works for Stage and Screen 1962-1985" (Peter lang, 2007) for a very detailed new reading, based on insights from manuscript study.
By: dylanesque2100. on 08 May 08, 09:43:27
beeing is spelt being. Over acting is spelt overacting. Listener's is plural and does not need an apostrophe. By the way I can't wait to see your production.
By: nettos9. on 23 Apr 08, 15:35:01
Jeremy Irons' play is excellent, direction and dramaturge is perfect. What I like is their acts, gestures showing emotions.They are naturally reacting to each other.These tiny signs are the clue to the play. I guess, though, enough ambiguity is left for us to enjoy it
By: sidecar9000. on 12 Apr 08, 16:24:47
STRAORDINARIO...
By: Mints1986. on 07 Apr 08, 04:55:32
Oh you silly postmodern deconstructionists and your putting quotation marks around "meaningful". Why do you hate meaning so much, postmodernism? Huh? ...comon, you know you can't escape it
By: critics1. on 17 Mar 08, 20:23:12
It is always wiser to follow Beckett's directions if one hasn't anything superior to offer (and as this production proves again, technology isn't the answer). The double Mr Irons is a promising start but without deep make-up work he is too young for the role on film (this is Beckett's last personal "impromptu" as an old dying soul before his last, final, parables) and Listener's over acting and Reader's glimpses (and the production's overall effort at beeing "meaningful") are just in vain.
By: critics1. on 17 Mar 08, 20:20:27
It is always wiser to follow Beckett's directions if one hasn't anything superior to offer (and as this production proves again, technology isn't the answer). The double Mr Irons is a promising start but without deep make-up work he is too young for the role on film (this is Beckett's last personal "impromptu" as an old dying soul before his last, final, parables) and Listener's over acting and Reader's glimpses (and the production's overall effort at beeing "meaningful") are just in vain.
By: blueberrysour12. on 14 Mar 08, 18:56:10
well i kind of agree with your theory, but i want to take another step deeper. i think it is Beckett himself. he is the character playing to parts, the part of an author and the part of an outsider(aka the listener)i'm also studying this for a college course.
By: FullMetalKenna. on 22 Jan 08, 23:58:35
Im studying this for university. very interesting.. would anyone agree the two people are one person? One being the reading voice, the other being the concentration?
By: lynnsheppardbowieart. on 05 Nov 07, 21:13:43
Does anyone have Rockaby? This is a wonderful play. I saw it in UCLA's Powell library.
By: marbeque. on 30 Oct 07, 02:42:24
i don't get it