Samuel Beckett: Last News

Kathleen Turner graced the red carpet on Thursday evening in New York City - after almost 50 years in showbusiness. The 68-year-old veteran Hollywood actress - who was in the 1984 classic adventure film Romancing The Stone as well as 1994's campy hit Serial Mom - was stylish in an all black outfit that consisted of a long-sleeved turtleneck top and loose slacks.Her trademark golden hair was parted on the side and worn shoulder length as she was beautifully made up in plum tones. The award-winning thespian was posing at the opening night after party for Irish Repertory Theatre's production of the one-act play End Game from writer Samuel Beckett about a blind man and his parents who live in a shack. The event was held at the Merchants New York.

After 30 years in TV film and theater, where she has performed in plays by Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Shakespeare, Filipina actress Dolly De Leon made news stories all around the world during Cannes 2022 for playing a cleaner. But not just any cleaner; as the savvy Abigail, who turns the tables when a luxury cruise ship capsizes in Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winning social satire Triangle of Sadness, De Leon gives a masterclass in skewering lazy clichés and assumptions about her home country. Proving the power of De Leon’s performance is the response from countries all around the world, notably the U.K., where she made the Bafta longlist, and the U.S., where she is in the running for a Golden Globe.

EXCLUSIVE: Film Constellation has sealed a raft of deals on Spanish director Juan Galiñanes’s upcoming thriller Fatum, as it continues sales on the title at the AFM with a first promo.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIn “Mad Men,” Jon Hamm had his corner office: the room with a view, overlooking Madison Avenue, where Don Draper could work, drink and brainstorm in peace. Maybe that’s why the actor was drawn to playing a lowly paper-pusher with a bad mustache and big dreams of occupying such a space in “Corner Office,” a low-key, screw-loose workplace satire that offers audiences a side of Hamm they’ve never seen before — and might not be in such a hurry to experience again, unless the toil-from-home blues of the pandemic have made them receptive to the call of cubicle life.Premiering at the Tribeca Festival, “Corner Office” is director Joachim Back’s slightly taxing cinematic take on “The Room,” a slender novel by Swedish actor-cum-author Jonas Karlsson, unread by me, that bills itself as “a short, sharp and fiendish fable in the tradition of Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Charlie Kauffman.” Check, check and check, insofar as those three absurdist writers are concerned, though I’d quibble with the other descriptors in that pitch.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorAidan Gillen, who played Littlefinger in “Game of Thrones,” and Sandrine Bonnaire, a best actress winner at Venice for “La cérémonie,” have joined Gabriel Byrne in Samuel Beckett biopic “Dance First,” directed by Oscar-winner James Marsh.Film Constellation has closed pre-sales on the film in Australia/New Zealand (Icon), Italy (Bim Distribuzione), Spain (Filmin), Portugal (Nos Audiovisuais), Greece (Filmtrade), Hungary (Vertigo Media), former Yugoslavia (Discovery) and Taiwan (Cai Chang). Pay TV outlet Sky developed the film as a Sky Original in the U.K.Marsh, best-known for “The Theory of Everything,” for which Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar, and Oscar-winner “Man on Wire,” will start shooting the film on May 30 in Budapest.

Eastenders fans are in mourning as actor Leonard Fenton, who played the much loved Doctor Harold Legg, has died aged 95.

EastEnders star Leonard Fenton has died at the age of 95.

Leonard Fenton, who played the tole of Doctor Harold Legg on BBC soap opera EastEnders, has died at the age of 95.The heartbreaking news was announced on the official Facebook page for EastEnders, which shared a statement from Leonard's family. It explained that the actor passed away on Saturday 29 January. They shared: "The family of the actor Leonard Fenton are heartbroken to announce his death at the age of 95 on Saturday January 29th.

Death’s Door, is making its way to the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch on November 23.Previously only available on PC and Xbox, it’s a game that we described as “like Samuel Beckett meets Adventure Time, combining an abstract, tragic sensibility with juvenile humour and acid-tongued barbs.” Death’s Door offers an atmospheric mixture of great puzzles, exploration, and some challenging combat too.You play a cute looking crow who also happens to be a reaper. He’s been tasked with the role of eliminating magical creatures who have dodged death.

Sir Michael Palin and Robert Lindsay raised £35,000 for charity with a live reading of Waiting For Godot, despite interruptions from a mobile phone and downpour of rain.