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Jan 13, 2022 · Delivered late in Act I in the bell tower when Macbeth is plotting the murder of King Duncan with Lady Macbeth, it most resoundingly serves as a declaration by Macbeth that Lady Macbeth...
Jan 14, 2022 · Here, Coen and a clutch of below-the-line collaborators explain how they were able to pump new blood into this canonical tale. Joel Coen, Writer/Director: “I’m not a Shakespeare guy. I’ve seen lots of Shakespeare over the years. I’ve seen lots of productions of ‘Macbeth’.
Jan 28, 2022 · “I’m still an amateur.” But look closer at “Macbeth,” and there are aspects of the play that make it fitting and perhaps inevitable subject matter for Coen. “It’s a murder story,” he said. “In...
Apr 5, 2022 · That’s what makes “The Tragedy of Macbeth” feel remarkably fresh: Writer-director Joel Coen paints his latest film in unapologetic, ethereal strokes of black-and-white expressionism.
Jan 13, 2022 · Coen and McDormand said they thought an adjustment in two words of the line to change a verb tense — the only tweaks made to Shakespeare’s verse in the film — would deliver a strong message and...
Sep 27, 2021 · At TheWrap, Robert Abele finds that Coen has turned Macbeth into “a taut feast of shadowy, claustrophobic noir, as if it had been punched out on an Underwood by a bitter, hard-drinking screenwriter in a smoky studio office and handed to a European émigré to visualize like a nightmare.”
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Jan 14, 2022 · The first solo directorial effort by Joel Coen. All of his previous films have been co-directed with his brother Ethan Coen, though Ethan was uncredited as director until 2004 due to DGA rules about directing duos.
