The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes94%
Metacritic81/100
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
6 audience votes
Key crew
- Ross LipmanDirector
- Ross LipmanWriter
Cast
- Ross LipmanNarrator
- Leonard MaltinSelf
- Kevin BrownlowSelf
- Haskell WexlerSelf
- James KarenSelf
- Samuel BeckettSelf (archive footage)
- Buster KeatonSelf (archive footage)
- Billie WhitelawSelf
Themes
philosophybehind the scenesfilmmakingarchive footageanalysis