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now on bbc news, talking movies. hello from new york, and welcome to talking movies. i m tom brook. in today s programme, the new york film festival, one of my favourite autumnal cultural events, bringing great cinema to new york city. a highlight of this year, the opening night film, new adaptation of macbeth starring frances mcdormand and denzel washington. we starring frances mcdormand and denzel washington. starring frances mcdormand and denzel washington. we hope that eo - le denzel washington. we hope that peeple enjoy denzel washington. we hope that peeple enjoy it denzel washington. we hope that people enjoy it and denzel washington. we hope that people enjoy it and respond - denzel washington. we hope that people enjoy it and respond to - people enjoy it and respond to it and we will see what happens. it and we will see what happens- it and we will see what happens. it and we will see what hauens. happens. macbeth, the so-called scottish player. happens. macbeth, the
people s faces and that is really striking details up close, which is something that a lot of people with shakespeare and macbeth are afraid 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 is what drives the film.- is what drives the film. more than just seeing is what drives the film. more than just seeing macbeth, i is what drives the film. more i than just seeing macbeth, new thanjust seeing macbeth, new york s opening night brought audiences thejoyous york s opening night brought audiences the joyous experience of connecting after tough pandemic times. we of connecting after tough pandemic times.- of connecting after tough pandemic times. we are all ready to pandemic times. we are all ready to be pandemic times. we are all ready to be here pandemic times. we are all ready to be here and i pandemic times. we are all ready to be here and we i pandemic times. we are
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close to that. just a stones throw from close to that. just a stones throw from where - close to that. just a stones throw from where joel i close to that. just a stones i throw from where joel coen s new macbeth recently permeated the delacorte theatre in central park, which more than 60 years has provided free shakespeare performances for audiences, it while shakespeare is widely considered the pre eminent master of the english language, macbeth has actually inspired its of international adaptations. it is a special challenge to translate shakespeare s for translate sha kespeare s for this translate shakespeare s for this dialogue into a new spoken language and a cinematic language and a cinematic language at once. in 2003, macbool, and adaptations set in by s criminal underworld, played to appreciative audiences at both the cannes film festival and the toronto film festival and the toronto film festival. of course, the best regarded adaptation of macbeth may be accurate kurosawa s