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Festival, came to new york with its director and star. i told myself, pretend youre doing a little show. this is a weird show, butjust have fun with it. there were many festival films with great performances, a real stand—out, benedict cumberbatch in the power of the dog. and some great documentaries, one using animation to chronicle the plight of an afghan refugee fleeing the taliban 25 years ago. and the other, a portrait of the influential new york rock band formed in the 1960s, the velvet ...

Macbeth is one of shakespeares more internal and philosophical plays, making it a naturalfit for the intimacy of cinema. we have this really intimate view of a man who is not only having his nerve endings deadened as he goes through his sort of murderous course of the play, but who is explicitly conscious about what is happening. so hes like an observer of his own process of being dehumanised, and he reflects on that consciously at the end of the play. so that extraordinary, large story arc, whi...

To do — often with soliloquies, with the monologues, you hear them in voice—over. and this really stays with the actors, it stays with the performances, and thats what drives the movie. more than just seeing macbeth, the new york film festivals opening night brought audiences thejoyous experience of connecting after tough pandemic times. were all ready to be here and were ready to be in the theatre together and have a communal experience. we need this. new york needs this film festival and w...

My names macbeth! it was orson welles who famously, although perhaps a bit obviously, stated that shakespeare would have been a great movie writer. over a century of macbeth adaptations have proven him correct, and with any good fortune, well get a century more. though the yeasty waves confound and swallow navigation i up. though bladed corn be lodged... the french movie titane made a big impact when it was shown at the cannes film festival earlier this year. it brought its director, julia ducou...

A film vocabulary that makes a lot of sense, and kurosawa is of course a very controlling director, and some of the things he does in the movie just with framing, the angles of the shots, juxtapositions of characters and the sort of triangles that he sets up, they almost always, if you pay attention to them, have a real meaning that they convey, even if its only reaching the audience subliminally. sincejoel coen�*s the tragedy of macbeth has onlyjust premiered amidst the hurly—burly of the n...

From that play have stayed with me, "vaulting ambition that oerleaps itself and falls on the other," and of course lady macbeth uttering "out, damn spot." so i was very pleased when i heard that this year the new york film festival was having as its opening night film a fresh interpretation of macbeth called the tragedy of macbeth, starring denzel washington and frances mcdormand. the world premiere of this new macbeth definitely created excitement. the film was shot in black and white on a los ...

A macabre interpretation, welles�* film featured a grisly execution scene not found in the original play. his significant revisions to the text, including the reordering of scenes and the cutting of dialogue, angered critics, and the film was not considered a success. hail macbeth! over the years, others have tried their hand at it. roman polanski made a well—regarded version in 1971 that featured more on—screen violence than previous iterations. it makes me sick how they use you. you do e...

Shakespeare performances for audiences. and while shakespeare is widely considered the pre—eminent master of the english language, macbeth has actually inspired its share of international adaptations. its a special challenge to translate shakespeares flawless dialogue into a new spoken language and a cinematic language at once. in 2003, maqbool, an adaptations set in mumbais criminal underworld, played to appreciative audiences at both the cannes film festival and the toronto film festival. of...

We started reading and sitting down and rehearsing it, but then the company rehearsed for about a month before we started shooting. as the director of the new york film festival told me, audiences will find joel coen�*s macbeth faithful to sha kespeare�*s original work. theyll see a film that very much connects with and hews closely to the language and the wording of the tragedy of macbeth, but its refreshed in a certain way, refreshed with some of the people that are acting on screen, worki...

Were all ready to be here and were ready to be in the theatre together and have a communal experience. we need this. new york needs this film festival and we need each other. its quite emotional to be here together. over the decades there have been numerous interpretations and adaptations of macbeth from different filmmakers, from kurosawa to polanski and many more. noah gittell has been looking back at cinema history to see how filmmakers have staged the so—called scottish play in the past. y...