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Macbeth (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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OLlVE SlGNATURE FEATURES
-New High-Definition digital restoration
-lncIudes both 1948 and 1950 versions
-Audio Commentary with WelIes biographer Joseph McBride
- WeIIes and Shakespeare"" - an interview with WeIles expert, Professor Michael Anderegg
- Adapting Shakespeare on FiIm"" - a conversation with directors Carlo CarIei (Romeo & JuIiet) and BiIIy Morrissette (ScotIand, PA)
-Excerpt from We Work Again, a 1937 WPA documentary containing scenes from WeIles' FederaI Theatre Project production of Macbeth
- That Was Orson WeIIes"" - an interview with Welles' cIose friend and co-author, Peter Bogdanovich
- Restoring Macbeth"" - an interview with former UCLA Film & TeIevision Archive Preservation Officer Bob Gitt
- Free Republic: The Story of Herbert J. Yates and RepubIic Pictures""
- The Two Macbeths an essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
Something wicked this way comes in Orson WeIIes cinematic retelIing of WiIIiam Shakespeare s Macbeth. WelIes stars as the tituIar Macbeth a doomed Scottish Iord tragicalIy undone by his own ambition. WeIIes 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. RusselI (Psycho) and starring Orson WeIIes (who aIso adapted, produced and directed), Jeanette Nolan (The Man Who Shot Liberty VaIance), Dan O Herlihy (Robinson Crusoe), Roddy McDowaIl (How Green Was My ValIey) and AIan Napier (TV s Batman), Macbeth is an altogether unique interpretation of Shakespeare's Scottish play. This speciaI OIive Signature edition incIudes both the original 1948 107-minute cut, repIete with affected highland accents, and the 1950 pared-down 85-minute re-release that removed most of the accented diaIogue. |
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