Beg Steal Borrow has added its first four features to Vimeo for viewers to watch for free.
Please go to the Beg Steal Borrow Vimeo page and see our first four features for free!
Anyone who has had a chance, therefore, to catch En Attendant Godard, Afterimages, Common Ground or China: A User’s Manual (Films) is welcome to go to the Beg Steal Borrow Vimeo page and to watch the films there.
Please pass on the word – and enjoy the films!
Beg Steal Borrow collaborator Hannah Croft, who starred in En Attendant Godard, is also starring in Paolo Mitton’s The Repairman/Storia di un Riparatore, an Italian comedy that has been selected for the Raindance Film Festival 2013.
A screening of the film takes place on Thursday 3 October 2013 at the Piccadilly Apollo in London at 20:45. Tickets have already sold out!
So a massive congratulations to Hannah – and to her collaborators on the film – and we hope to see her in another Beg Steal Borrow production before too long!
It is with great pleasure that I’d like to share some informal feedback that I have received on various Beg Steal Borrow films.
First of all, the great Mohsen Makhmalbaf contacted me briefly to write: “I like En Attendant Godard.”
Secondly, the prolific Josh Hyams also wrote to say that that he “thought your films are beautiful.”
And thirdly, the excellent academic David H. Fleming wrote to say:
“China: A User’s Manual: I adored it. Really. It spoke with me. To me. It was like memories and thoughts I too have had. A prosthetic memory. Like I was on the back of the screen mirror. I knew some of the stories of course from talking to you. But they were also like reruns of my memories. Memories I did not know we shared. It’s so dense and yet light and free. Antonioni, Marker, the third-image. The epistolary form so like Montesquieu’s Persian Letters in light and sound. I had read almost all the books and stories you mentioned. Knew all the films and scenes you were referencing. The news stories and made up ones too. And recognised a China that I know and feel. I felt like you were talking to me. And wondered if it was not me, and I did not know you, would it be the same. We need to do something with this film out here.
“I really like Common Ground, too. Haunting… It was a dream-like recollection of Afterimages and to a lesser extend En Attendant Godard. Totally appreciate you sending them. A breath of fresh air.”
What wonderful feedback from such esteemed people. I am humbled, but also inspired by this feedback. Many thanks! Let’s carry ourselves with confidence to the next Beg Steal Borrow shoot, provisionally titled Endemic, scheduled for shooting in France in July 2013!
En Attendant Godard has played at the Centre for Research into Film and Audiovisual Cultures (CRFAC) at the University of Roehampton, London.
The screening was well attended and included a discussion between students at the university and director William Brown, who is a lecturer in film there.
A link to details of the screening can be found here.
En Attendant Godard has a page on the Internet Movie Database.
The rating of the film currently is at a somewhat low 3.1 out of 10 – with only seven votes so far… Perhaps this reflects the difficulty of the film, or it might be that I clicked on 0 by mistake one time while looking at it and hoping to give it 10 stars. Maybe this will rise in time. It’s not a new version of The Room that we have made, after all.
You can see the IMDb entry here.
Bill White of the Seattle Post Globe has reviewed En Attendant Godard.
White expresses some issues that the film is not really about Samuel Beckett – but overall finds himself getting into the low budget ethos of the film and endorsing it.
Although offline now, the link to the review was/is here.
En Attendant Godard has been selected as one of the films to play on the opening weekend of the new ArtsEmerson Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Playing alongside films by Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang, the screening is a true honour for the film and its makers.
Details of the screening can be found here.
En Attendant Godard has played at the prestigious NorthWestFilmForum in Seattle.
Matthew Holtmeier introduced the screening, which took place thanks to the great help of Adam Sekuler.
Details of the screening can be found here.
Prestigious film academic Dina Iordanova has mentioned En Attendant Godard in one of her blog posts.
The full post can be seen here.
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