Beckett’s play “Eh Joe,” directed for the stage by filmmaker Atom Egoyan, is transformed from play to web video by the New York Times. They should do more of these. Peneleope Wilton’s narration is haunting—the static slides almost remind me of Chris Marker’s La Jetée.

Atom Egoyan is one of my favorite young film directors, an wonderful lecturer, and an artist who always deserves more attention than he gets. Venture out to see some of his work at a contemporary Canadian film festival or stay in get it from Netflix. Either way, David L. Pike’s essay “Four Films in Search of an Author,” while it may be a bit harsher than I would like, is a very informed analysis of what Egoyan’s been up to in his recent work. Egoyan’s excellently designed collection “Subtitles”—edited with Ian Balfour for the Canadian outfit Alphabet City—is worth picking up as well.