Oscar-winning scribe William Monahan (The Departed) has signed on to write/direct an adaptation of the 1959 Jean Anouilh play, Becket. Calling the project "an adaptation, or re-invigoration, of an ...

“Becket,” producer Hal Wallis’ opulently entertaining film of Jean Anouilh’s play, is the tale of a wild and woolly British king and his God-intoxicated buddy, whom he unwisely appoints archbishop of ...

There’s not a dull moment in the unstoppable three hours of Jean Anouilh’s 1959 epic “Becket” (on which the stirring 1964 film with Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton was based). A fine revival by ...

Every life is a universe all its own.

Never before available on DVD, the Burton-O’Toole classic Becket at last gets its due. This week’s DVD release follows a laborious 2003 restoration and a limited theatrical re-release earlier this ...

More than 40 years after a dazzling first run that earned a dozen Academy Award nominations, “Becket” is back on the big screen and just in time to cast a fascinating light on this year’s Oscar race.