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Babettes gæstebud (1987)
Perhaps the most beautiful and most moving movie ever made.
If not THE most beautiful and moving, one of the most. And that's all I have to say.
Well, I wanted to leave it there but imdb tells me this must contain at least 150 characters so I will add that this movie lifts Karen Blixen's lovely story even higher. I hope she would have been happy with the ways in which her story was slightly expanded and very slightly altered.
Beginning to End (1968)
Excellent Beckett compilation with a great actor
This is one of many fine PBS productions from the 1970s that seem to have disappeared. Jack McGowran, one of Beckett's favorite interpreters of his own work, created a one-man show of bits and pieces from Beckett's plays and novels. This production played to acclaim in New York and perhaps other places.
PBS made this film adaptation of the stage production, filming in the desert. My memory is that it was fascinating TV. I'd love to see it again. I suppose I should find out if the Paley Center has it. But it's sad to think that this may never again be seen by a wider audience than those who can get themselves to the Paley Center (and who would know about it in the first place).