The film-makers would say they’re making drama, not history. But this is not the moment for yet another second world war film with a heroic myth, says author Francis Beckett ...

Samuel Beckett titled his one film Film, but the work itself, while arresting, is never as bold as that title. Beckett’s 1965 short, starring Buster Keaton, is more A Film than The Film, a study of a ...

What could be better than a team up between absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett, and cinema’s great clown Buster Keaton? Add to that, a story that’s nothing more than a chase scene boiled down to ...

Gabriel Byrne plays the Irish Nobel Prize-winning writer in the drama from the 'The Theory of Everything' director. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Dance First, a biographical drama from The ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Tony nominee Gabriel Byrne will play the Nobel Prize-winning playwright in the ...

UK director James Marsh’s literary biopic Dance First, starring Gabriel Byrne as iconic Irish writer Samuel Beckett, will close the 71st San Sebastian Film Festival. The film is sold by London and ...