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Notfilm (2015)

2h 10m

Running Time

Notfilm (2015)

Name: Notfilm
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-10-27

2h 10m

Running Time

Plot.

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.

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Currently Notfilm is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Criterion Channel, Apple TV

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Cast & Crew.

Ross Lipman

Narrator / Director / Writer / Cinematography / Editor

Leonard Maltin

Self

Kevin Brownlow

Self

Haskell Wexler

Self

James Karen

Self

Samuel Beckett

Self (archive footage)

Buster Keaton

Self (archive footage)

Billie Whitelaw

Self

Dennis Doros

Producer

Barney Rosset

Self

Amy Heller

Producer

Mihály Víg

Music

Steve Schapiro

Self

Details.

Release Date
October 27, 2015

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 10m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-11

This Movie Is About.

philosophy

behind the scenes

filmmaking

archival footage

analysis

Wiki.

Notfilm is a 2015 feature-length documentary, directed by Ross Lipman on the production of playwright Samuel Beckett's only film, an experimental short titled Film starring Buster Keaton.

While conducting preliminary research to restore Film, filmmaker and restorationist Ross Lipman visited Grove Press founder and Film producer Barney Rosset at his apartment, where Lipman discovered reels of film and audio. This material contained outtakes from Beckett's 1965 production, including a prologue long-thought lost.

Notfilm reconstructs this prologue and integrates rare audio of Beckett's voice, surreptitiously recorded by Rosset, in a self-described "Kino Essay" that analyzes the philosophical foundation of Film, arguing it was an expression of Samuel Beckett's own distaste for the public eye.