Notfilm
Fri 11/7 • 7:30PM PST
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
In-person:
film preservationist and author Ross Lipman.
Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.
Notfilm
U.S., 2015
10th anniversary screening
Writer-director Ross Lipman’s deep dive into the production of literary giant, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s only movie, Film (co-directed with Alan Schneider, 1965), was hailed as one of the 10 best films of the year when it was released and stands a decade later as a master class in historical, aesthetic and thematic exposition. Weaving together primary documents, first-person interviews, archival materials and more, Lipman explores how the influences and concerns of a cavalcade of artists, both the celebrated and the obscure (including Beckett, star Buster Keaton, cinematographer Boris Kaufman and publisher Barney Rosset) coalesced — or not — into one of the most enigmatic and evocative cinematic works of the 20th century.—Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm
DCP, color, 130 min. Director/Screenwriter: Ross Lipman. With: Kevin Brownlow, Leonard Maltin, Judith Douw.
Part of:
Ross Lipman and The Archival Impermanence Project