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WBGO Film Critic Harlan Jacobson reviews Jordan's Peele's third movie NOPE

The two-time Academy Award winner reinvented Shakespeare’s tragic antihero for Joel Coen’s vision of the story. Why isn’t his revelatory performance getting more love?

Sparse and beautiful, Joel Coen’s Shakespeare adaptation focuses on why we continue to return to this story of power and downfall.

Orson Welles adapted the murderous play in 1948, and there have been many versions since then — each with its own twist.

Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is a triumph of visual storytelling. Starring Denzel Washington as the titular antihero, the faithful but fresh adaptation enlivens the timeless tale for new audiences and scholars of the Bard alike.

There is a Jewish interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve that situates the two back-to-back. Instead of God creating woman from the stolen rib of Adam, the two walk away and split — crack — into separate beings. This is where we now find the Coen brothers, the Jewish filmmaking duo who have… Read More »

Joel Coen’s new version of Shakespeare’s <em>Macbeth</em> presents us with a social tragedy filled with deadly conspiracies and civil strife.

One of postmodernitys greatest temptations is to mutilate, abridge, or transform Shakespeare into something contemporary. Shakespeare is, after all, a man of his time. By modern standards, hes misogynistic ("The Taming of the Shrew"), anti-Semitic

In this edition of Movie DNA, we offer a film history guide to Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth and recommend other movies like it.