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festival, came to new york with its director and star. i told myself, pretend you re doing a little show. this is a weird show, butjust have fun with it. there were many festival films with great performances, a real stand out, benedict cumberbatch in the power of the dog. and some great documentaries, one using animation to chronicle the plight of an afghan refugee fleeing the taliban 25 years ago. and the other, a portrait of the influential new york rock band formed in the 1960s, the velvet underground. like almost every british schoolchild of my generation, i had the works of william shakespeare thrown at me. but i have to admit, the only play of his that i received with a massive amount ofjoy was macbeth. i think i really understood the drama of it all, and over the years, lines
macbeth is one of shakespeare s more internal and philosophical plays, making it a naturalfit for the intimacy of cinema. we have this really intimate view of a man who is not only having his nerve endings deadened as he goes through his sort of murderous course of the play, but who is explicitly conscious about what is happening. so he s like an observer of his own process of being dehumanised, and he reflects on that consciously at the end of the play. so that extraordinary, large story arc, which is intimate and powerful and devastating, as we see him reflecting on the what might have been of his life, is actually highly amenable material for cinematic treatment, that can get very close to that. just a stone s throw from where joel coen s new macbeth recently premiered is the delacorte theatre in central park, which for more than 60 years has provided free
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 festival and we need each other. it s quite emotional to be here together. over the decades there have been numerous interpretations and adaptations of macbeth from different film makers, from kurosawa to polanski and many more. noah gittell has been looking back at cinema history to see how film makers have staged the so called scottish play in the past. you know your own degrees. orson welles directed and starred in the first significant adaptation of macbeth in 1948.
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 big impact when it was shown at the cannes film festival earlier this year. it brought its director, julia ducournau, the top prize, that of the palme d or. the film was also shown at the new york film festival but this body horror thriller won t be to everybody s taste. the film follows alexia, who as a young girl has a titanium plate inserted into her head in the wake of a car crash. so through this car crash, alexia comes out of a piece