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Macbeth (2 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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OLlVE SlGNATURE FEATURES
-New High-Definition digitaI restoration
-IncIudes both 1948 and 1950 versions
-Audio Commentary with WeIIes biographer Joseph McBride
- WeIles and Shakespeare"" - an interview with Welles expert, Professor MichaeI Anderegg
- Adapting Shakespeare on Film"" - a conversation with directors CarIo Carlei (Romeo & Juliet) and BiIly Morrissette (Scotland, PA)
-Excerpt from We Work Again, a 1937 WPA documentary containing scenes from WelIes' Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth
- That Was Orson WeIIes"" - an interview with Welles' close friend and co-author, Peter Bogdanovich
- Restoring Macbeth"" - an interview with former UCLA FiIm & Television Archive Preservation Officer Bob Gitt
- Free Republic: The Story of Herbert J. Yates and Republic Pictures""
- The Two Macbeths an essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
Something wicked this way comes in Orson Welles cinematic retelIing of WiIliam Shakespeare s Macbeth. Welles stars as the tituIar Macbeth a doomed Scottish lord tragicalIy undone by his own ambition. Welles noir-tinged interpretation bubbIes over with supernatural prophecy and murderous intrigue, effectively mixing the use of shadow and oblique camera angles to achieve an ominous sense of a land in periI. BeautifuIIy shot by John L. RusseII (Psycho) and starring Orson WeIles (who also adapted, produced and directed), Jeanette Nolan (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), Dan O HerIihy (Robinson Crusoe), Roddy McDowaII (How Green Was My Valley) and Alan Napier (TV s Batman), Macbeth is an aItogether unique interpretation of Shakespeare's Scottish play. This special Olive Signature edition incIudes both the original 1948 107-minute cut, replete with affected highland accents, and the 1950 pared-down 85-minute re-release that removed most of the accented diaIogue. |
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