Notfilm

Oct 27, 2015

2h 10m

★ 5.0

Overview

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Milestone Film & Video

Notfilm Trailers

Cast

Narrator

Ross Lipman

Self

Leonard Maltin

Self

Kevin Brownlow

Self

Haskell Wexler

Self

James Karen

Self (archive footage)

Samuel Beckett

Self (archive footage)

Buster Keaton

Self

Billie Whitelaw

Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together with Henri Langlois, she founded the Cinémathèque Française with the goal of saving from destruction films, costumes, sets, posters, and other treasures of the 7th Art. A Jew exiled in Paris, she became a pillar of the capital's cultural scene, where she promoted German cinema.

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