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Now on bbc news, time for talking movies. hello from new york, and welcome to talking movies. i'm tom brooks. in today's 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 we'll see what happens. macbeth, the so—called scottish play, has been adopted into more than 25 different movies. we look at those that made an impact. a shocking body horr...

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 in 1971 that featured more on—screen violence than previous iterations. it makes me sick how they ...

We got a chance to rehearse it like a play, well, we actually started working, fran and i and joel, i don't 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. they'll see a film that very much connects with and hews closely to the language and the wording of the tragedy of macbeth, but it's refreshed in a certain way, refreshed with some of the people that...

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 that's what drives the movie. more than just seeing macbeth, the new york film festival's opening night brought audiences thejoyous experience of connecting after tough pandemic times. we're all ready to be here and we're ready to be in the theatre together and have a communal experience. we need this. new york needs this film...

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 name's 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, we'll 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 b...