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Now on bbc news, time for talking movies. hello from new york, and welcome to talking movies. im tom brooks. in todays programme, the new york film festival, one of my favourite autumnal cultural events, bringing great cinema to new york city. a highlight of this year, the opening night film, a new adaptation of macbeth starring frances mcdormand and denzel washington. we hope that people enjoy it and respond to it and well see what happens. macbeth, the so—called scottish play, has been adopt...

You know your own degrees. orson welles directed and starred in the first significant adaptation of macbeth in 1948. 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 ...

We got a chance to rehearse it like a play, well, we actually started working, fran and i and joel, i dont know, a year out, 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 t...

Up close, which is something that a lot of filmmakers, with shakespeare in general and with macbeth are afraid 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 b...

Seeing how each generation will engage with it a fresh take but also one that hears and echoes and filters and, you know, sort of newly reads all those echoes from the ghostly past of interpretations as well. 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 conf...

Continue to be drawn to this character and this story. 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 o...

New macbeth recently premiered is the delacorte theatre in central park, which for more than 60 years has provided free 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 ...

This new macbeth won some great reviews and talk of possible 0scar nominations for its leads, it was really seen as quite fine cinema. whats striking about this film is that it really turns shakespeare into something cinematic. it looks like a german expressionism film or something made by carl theodore dreyer, in the sense that youre looking at peoples faces in this really striking detail up close, which is something that a lot of filmmakers, with shakespeare in general and with macbeth are afr...

Known if it will be received as the definitive english—language version that cinema has thus far lacked — although some scholars think were better off without one. with these stories that we have like macbeth, that belong to all of us, its wonderful seeing how each generation will engage with it a fresh take but also one that hears and echoes and filters and, you know, sort of newly reads all those echoes from the ghostly past of interpretations as well. my names macbeth! it was orson welles...

That featured more on—screen violence than previous iterations. it makes me sick how they use you. you do everything, they do nothing. the american independent film boom of the 19905 produced two gritty modern—day adaptations, men of respect, set in the world of organised crime, and scotland, pa, set bizarrely but effectively at a fast food restaurant in the 19705. theres a reason filmmakers continue to be drawn to this character and this story. macbeth is one of shakespeares more internal a...