Interview With "Dance First" Director James Marsh

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

"Dance First" is a biographical film about Irish playwright Samuel Beckett (played by Gabriel Byrne) and directed by James Marsh ("The Theory of Everything"). The film closed the 71st San Sebastián International Film Festival's official selection on September 30th, 2023, and is now getting a release in U.S. theaters. Marsh was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in a limited release from Magnolia Pictures and will be available on Digital on August 16th. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Dan Baer's interview with the director for Dance First, James Marsh.
0:08.1	The Nobel Prize for Literature is hereby awarded to Samuel Beckett.
0:15.4	Caracott's stuff.
0:25.6	You know this is going to be a journey through your shame. Isn't everything?
0:27.6	Whose forgiveness do you need the most?
0:32.6	We shall begin with mother.
0:34.6	Did you read my story?
0:38.3	What a waste.
0:39.3	I'm going to Paris and I hope never to return.
0:43.3	I'm ill with a regret.
0:46.3	You mean Suzanne?
0:48.3	Hello, Sam.
0:50.3	You might name your scars after it.
0:53.3	I might name my joys as well.
0:56.0	I will never be so happy again.
0:58.0	Because I knew the life that was to come.
1:01.0	Mr. Joyce, my name is Samuel Beckett.
1:04.0	I wanted to make your acquaintance.
1:06.0	The important thing is not what we rise, but how we write.
1:10.0	We must write dangerously bagate
1:13.1	Gestapo
1:15.7	growth even in that horrible place they couldn't turn off the stars welcome everyone
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