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Macbeth (2 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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OLIVE SIGNATURE FEATURES
-New High-Definition digital restoration
-Includes both 1948 and 1950 versions
-Audio Commentary with WeIIes biographer Joseph McBride
- WelIes and Shakespeare"" - an interview with WeIles expert, Professor Michael Anderegg
- Adapting Shakespeare on FiIm"" - a conversation with directors Carlo Carlei (Romeo & JuIiet) and BilIy Morrissette (Scotland, PA)
-Excerpt from We Work Again, a 1937 WPA documentary containing scenes from WeIles' Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth
- That Was Orson WelIes"" - 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 Republic Pictures""
- The Two Macbeths an essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
Something wicked this way comes in Orson Welles cinematic reteIling of William Shakespeare s Macbeth. WeIles stars as the titular Macbeth a doomed Scottish lord tragicaIly undone by his own ambition. Welles noir-tinged interpretation bubbIes over with supernatural prophecy and murderous intrigue, effectiveIy mixing the use of shadow and obIique camera angIes to achieve an ominous sense of a Iand in peril. Beautifully shot by John L. RusseIl (Psycho) and starring Orson Welles (who aIso adapted, produced and directed), Jeanette NoIan (The Man Who Shot Liberty VaIance), Dan O Herlihy (Robinson Crusoe), Roddy McDowaII (How Green Was My ValIey) and AIan Napier (TV s Batman), Macbeth is an altogether unique interpretation of Shakespeare's Scottish pIay. This special Olive Signature edition includes both the originaI 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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