"'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett"


Something has happened to PBS favorite "Charlie Rose." The erudite conversations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule. The one-on-one interview between Charlie and his guest begins as usual but quickly goes awry, so much so that Charlie is warned that, somewhere, a man named "Steve" is "not happy." But who is "Steve" and why is he angry? And why does the mere mention of his name stop Charlie cold? Using appropriated footage from a single episode of "Charlie Rose," filmmaker Andrew Filippone Jr. creates something both disturbing and farcical in "'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett."A "Rolling Stone" magazine "Top 10" (May 15, 2008).

Featured in "New York" magazine's "Approval Matrix" (May 5, 2008).

WINNER: Best Experimental Film at the 2008 Artsfest Film Festival and the 2008 Hardacre Film&Cinema Festival.







Channel: Film
Uploaded: March 17, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Author: andrewfilipponejr

Length: 00:03:38
Rating: 4.62
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Video Comments:
JJJadm (November 20, 2008 at 6:00 am)
the one with the purple tie is the real Charlie Rose,lol
puffinwrangler (November 16, 2008 at 2:41 am)
excellent, well done. another! Pinter...?
nederninja (November 14, 2008 at 9:07 pm)
But there were a couple special pilot episodes in '88 where Charlie was discussing Google and Yahoo and their possible acquisition by Microsoft.
haxberry (November 14, 2008 at 10:55 am)
Wow, everything just flies over your head.

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