What Where
Damien O'Donnell 2000 Ireland (1st time; DVD)
A menacing figure of authority orders a chain of underlings to torture one another to find out what he wants.
Beckett's obscure play, shot with a deliberately slow pace and foreboding, is given a political, Orwellian treatment, with a beautiful tower of books standing behind the man in control--who, actually, seeks control without getting it.

Act Without Words - I
Karel Reisz 2000 UK/Ireland (1st time; DVD)
A man dropped in a desert devoid of all other objects and life, is given opportunities to learn and prosper and reach the water that dangles above him, but chance ruins everything for him.
The futility of life, too frustrating to be convincing: there is perhaps a contradiction in such criticism, but Reisz has chosen his mime to be one we don't necessarily care for - it would have been far wiser to make him likeable, and thus the play far more brutal. If he has tried to imitate the artificiality of it all with his set, he has sacrificed all potential for a cinematic slant on Beckett's play.

Busking
Joshua Kerr 2006 UK (1st time; big screen)
A busker who can't play the guitar reveals all to camera.
Mockumentary short which isn't short enough; its momentum is deadened about a quarter through, and the acting has as much charm as a badly-tuned guitar.