"'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 The erudite conversations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule.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).

Alexis Madrigal of "The Atlantic" on CRBSB: http://bit.ly/cqs9qH

Very Short List on CRBSB: http://bit.ly/rAR3U

SCREENINGS: Chicago & Boston Underground Film Festivals; LIVE! at the New York Public Library

WINNER: Best Experimental Film at the 2008 Artsfest Film Festival

• Category

  Film & Animation

[davmorga]

This remains my single favorite clip on YouTube

[Simon Joyce]

radiohead

[briankane]

what's gonna happen?

[OMFGWTFBBQLEET]

I want to find this funnier than it is.

[OdedFriedGaon]

Finally Charlie shut up and let someone else talk!

[joncaeb]

I watch this on Sam's BD anniversary every year. Too funny.

[Lucas Shuttle]

Microsoft.

Yahoo.

[LEAVEJVCALONE]

fake

[sambking]

Really great! Thanks for making! Charlie has never sounded so smart.