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Macbeth on Film Jerome Monahan's Macbeth On Film is an impressively comprehensive resource that attempts to enhance students' understanding of the play and introduce them to some of the key concepts of film studies. The idea of film genre isn't discussed and the notion of audience is merely alluded to in passing. Macbeth on Film should at the very least ensure that your lessons on the subject are clear and informative rather than appearing to the uninitiated a tale "told by an idiot, signifying nothing". www.mediaed.org.uk /posted_documents/macbeth.htm   (1154 words)

1948 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture. July 23 - David Wark Griffith, film director. This page was last modified 13:30, 27 April 2006. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1948_in_film   (137 words)

vhs video: macbeth (understanding shostakovich shakespeare)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Verdi's 'Macbeth' premiered in Florence's Teatro della Pergola in 1847 is the first of his operas to show his genius n full flight. This was the first film that broke whatever box folks might have been trying to put Robin Williams in (after Mork and Mindy) and added Actor with a capital A to the public perception of him (at... In the two-hour running length of the video the main scenes of Macbeth are acted out, and in between them a panel of experts from U.C.L.A. and California State University, Northridge analyze the meaning of the play,... www.very-clever.com /vhs/macbeth   (1133 words)

EUFS: Macbeth (1948)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Macbeth is another attempt of Welles to throw the viewer into a world of guilt, chaos and fear, this time through interpreting Shakespeare. Welles creates a purely theatrical atmosphere as the film is shot almost exclusively in studio although one has to admit that the expressionist sets sometimes burden the communication of the irony involved in the play. Welles' depiction of Macbeth is a bit monolithic but it gradually sinks the viewer into the solipsistic paranoia which guides his acts. www.eufs.org.uk /films/macbeth.html   (228 words)

Macbeth Macbeth lacks political skill, and turns the gracious office of king into the rule of a bloody tribal warlord. Macbeth, as the host, has a duty to protect all visitors to his castle from harm - not be the cause of that harm. Macbeth blames himself for delaying (quite unreasonably) and out of anger or a desire to do something, gives the order for Macduff's family to be slaughtered. www.universalteacher.org.uk /shakespeare/macbeth.htm   (5439 words)

Amazon.ca: Macbeth: Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) For her part, Lady Macbeth (Jeanette Nolan) is merely obsessed with the unimpeded exercise of her will to power, viewing her husband's life as a tale told by an idiot. MacBeth (Which literally means "Son of Life"), is given a prophesy that he will become king of Scotland and tells his wife of the prophesy. MacBeth, who is shown as no more than a pawn in this story, finally gains a measure of grace and dignity when he faces MacDuff in combat. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6302484502   (1238 words)

AngliaCampus : Macbeth (1948) At first Lady Macbeth has the ability to seem under control as she advises her husband to 'look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't'. Welles the actor is ideally suited to the part of Macbeth, using his gravelly voice and natural regal bulk, and where he's most successful is in conveying the transition from man to monster. There doesn't seem to be much of a relationship between Lady Macbeth and her husband, and the film doesn't give you a sense of her control over him. www.angliacampus.com /athome/feat/screen/2001_01   (882 words)

The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Throne of Blood: The Criterion Collection And Roman Polanski's 1971 version was notable for its dark brutality (it was the first film from the director after the murder of his wife Sharon Tate). Most noticeably, Kurosawa interpreted Macbeth as a fatalistic play that exists in a universe where people's choices are limited or illusory — thus, the interior scenes are performed in the style of the Japanese Noh theater, a spare form that predates the Kabuki and is not as well known to Japanese audiences. Supplements are headlined by a commentary from Japanese film expert Michael Jeck, who previously graced Criterion's Seven Samurai Laserdisc and DVD — this new track, recorded in 2002, features plenty of insights and behind-the-scenes details, all shared in Jeck's good-natured, avuncular style. www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/t/throneofblood_cc.q.shtml   (702 words)

June 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) He considers the films as films in a way that Shakespeare specialists have often failed to, considering the films as products of an industry driven by box office receipts rather than aesthetic daring. Like the silent Shakespeare films produced by the largest pre-Hollywood studio Vitagraph (several of which have been released for the first time in the 1999 BFI Silent Shakespeare video), Shakespeare has been used as the 'high culture' icon to elevate the status and 'image' of struggling Hollywood studios. Yet his ambivalent discussion of Pickford's performance as Katherine is especially interesting from a feminist perspective &endash; in the film, as distinct from the play, she appears to "acquiesce in her own taming"(23), overhearing Petruchio's plans, and destroying instruments of domination (including a whip). www.sunynassau.edu /users/ash2/june2000.html   (3840 words)

Orson Welles' 1948 Macbeth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Macbeth was an appropriate choice for the auteur considering some kind of curse had apparently befallen the once wined-and-dined star of theatre, radio, and film. Macbeth was produced on the relative cheap (about $500,000), filmed at a breakneck pace (about twenty days), and the result is a haggard, stylized tone poem. Jeannette Nolan understands Lady Macbeth is among drama’s ultimate femme fatales, and plays her like a vampish shrew with a boot of a face but a killer body. www.bardolatry.com /macbeth.htm   (570 words)

Macbeth Macbeth is another version of his aborted Heart of Darkness project as well as another example of his weekly explorations into the evil lurking in mankind in his 1930s Shadow broadcasts. Cinematic references to Welles’ earlier films also appear in the use of long takes, the low-angle shot from the perspective of the murdered Duncan evoking Wilbur’s funeral in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and the oppressive cavern ceiling dominating a low-angle shot of Macbeth as he goes to the banquet in honour of the murdered Banquo. Macbeth is listening to what he wants to hear from the darkest corners of his mind. www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/06/38/macbeth.html   (1817 words)

Greatest Foreign Film Titles quiz -- free game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The 1948 film 'Ladri di biciclette' could very well be the greatest work from noted Italian film director Vittorio De Sica. One of the most interesting directors from Spain is Pedro Almodóvar, who has directed several great films, including the 1991 'Tacones lejanos', the story of a mother-daughter relationship. Some of my favorite films have come from Hong Kong, where Cantonese is the common tongue. www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=173143   (435 words)

Knitting Circle Alec Guinness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) He also made his film debut in 1934 as a film extra in Evensong as a World War I soldier in a concert audience. He then wrote to John Gielgud and a year later he was on stage playing the part of Osric in John Gielgud's production of Hamlet at the New Theatre (later to become the Albery Theatre) from 1934 to 1935, and then joined the Old Vic where he played Hamlet in 1938. He was knighted in 1959 for his accomplishments in theatre and film. myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/alecguinness.html   (2167 words)

Telegraph | News Far from the Shakespearean impression of a "butcher and his fiend-like Queen", Macbeth reigned wisely over a prosperous, united Scotland in the 11th century and encouraged the spread of Christianity. Although Macbeth may have slain his rival for the throne, the deed was done in the battle of Pitgaveny in Moray in 1040. Other prominent Macbeths include Sir John Gielgud, Orson Welles, who directed and starred in a 1948 film of the play, and Peter O'Toole, who played the lead in a production that critics described as the worst ever adaptation. www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/03/nmac03.xml   (690 words)

Macbeth (45th Anniversary Edition) movie for sale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) When the witches' first prophesy comes true and Macbeth is named thane, he is encouraged by his wife to murder Duncan, the king, and they plot to eliminate those who would threaten his position. Variety reviewed a 106-minute version in October 1948, and the film was edited and re-edited over the next two years, until only 89 minutes remained. The UCLA Film and Television Archives later restored the film to its original length. www.1stvideo.com /detail2.asp?Product_ID=1039577&PRelRefNum=1&TAN=1   (630 words)

Courtney Lehmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) What these films have in common is not only a somewhat oblique relationship to Shakespeare’s play but also a rather peculiar relationship to Scotland: not one of them is set or shot in Scotland, yet the idea of ‘Scotland’ operates as a powerful metonymy for a place that is everywhere and nowhere in particular. This cinenomadic vision of Scotland, I shall argue, suggests a compelling metaphor for a place wherein the challenges and possibilities of globalization may be traversed. Shakespeare’s Macbeth is, of course, neither a traditional western nor a neo-western like those that surfaced during the Reagan/Bush Sr. www.du.edu /~showard/CL.abstract.html   (243 words)

Bio for Roddy McDowall on MSN Movies McDowall's first adult acting assignment was as Malcolm in Orson Welles' 1948 film version of Macbeth; shortly afterward, he formed a production company with Macbeth co-star Dan O'Herlihy. McDowall left films for the most part in the 1950s, preferring TV and stage work; among his Broadway credits were No Time for Sergeants, Compulsion, (in which he co-starred with fellow former child star Dean Stockwell) and Lerner and Loewe's Camelot (as Mordred). Still accepting the occasional guest-star film role and theatrical assignment into the 1990s, McDowall towards the end of his life was most active in the administrative end of show business, serving on the executive boards of the Screen Actors Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=117430   (468 words)

Shakespeare on Film & Video: Books in the UC Berkeley Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Laurence Olivier's 1948 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' was the first to be influenced by Sigmund Freud's concept of the Oedipus complex, as interpreted by Ernest Jones' 1910 article 'Hamlet and Oedipus.' Since Olivier's version, the Oedipal interpretation of Hamlet has become standard on film and in performance. Family romance is at core of Franco Zeffirelli's film adaptation of 'Hamlet.' This is evident in his casting of actors Mel Gibson and Glenn Close in the principal roles, his manipulation of space and landscape, his alteration of the text and his approach to editing. While the film's correlation with political events is explored, it is posited that its message is ultimately apolitical, as humanity between characters is only expressed within domestic and private settings, rather than in the public domain. www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/ShakespeareBib.html   (13247 words)

Roddy McDowall - The films, movies, cinema, biography of British movie actor His Irish mother had once dreamed of going on the stage, and determined that her children should be in films. In 1943 he made one of his best-remembered films, ‘Lassie Come Home’, in which he is forced to part with his beloved dog, but is movingly reunited with the animal after it makes its way home from Scotland to Yorkshire. He missed the first sequel, ‘Beneath the Planet of the Apes’ (1970) because he was in London directing a film, though he did provide the voice for one of the apes. www.britishcinemagreats.com /Actors_page/roddy_mcdowall/roddy_mcdowall_page_1.htm   (677 words)

Amazon.com: Macbeth / 45th Anniversary (1946) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Macbeth's madness increasingly pervades the atmosphere of the entire film, making the viewer unwilling to view this film with the lights out. The restored version presents Welles's original conception; the actors speak their lines with authentic Scottish burrs (Welles was forced to redo the soundtrack by the studio brass). Many have cited "Macbeth" as a horror story, and whether or not that's exactly true, Orson Welles' superior production is certainly an excursion into nightmare that even a Murnau would have envied. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302484502?v=glance   (1830 words)

Laurence Olivier Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) His early film work was unimpressive, with no depth or passion beneath his matinee-idol looks; his outspoken disdain for film in general undoubtedly contributed to his wooden performances in "The Yellow Ticket" (1931) and "Perfect Understanding" (1933). From the end of WWII to the early 70s, Olivier made sporadic film appearances, largely owing to his involvement in the administration of London's St. James Theatre in the late 40s and the National Theatre at the Old Vic from 1963 to 1973. With the film version of John Osborne's play "The Entertainer" (1960), Olivier bade farewell to his romantic screen persona and introduced Olivier the character actor in the role of Archie Rice, the seedy, pathetic vaudevillian. www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/196638   (1064 words)

Macbeth (1948)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) No one will claim that Welles' adaptation is the most accurate or best (see Roman Polansky's for a truer Macbeth) and at some points the bombast of Welles and his supporting cast, especially Lady Macbeth, can be a little overwhelming. The darkness and dampness that close in on Welles as the movie progresses is claustrophobic and really gives a gritty appeal to this film. Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Macbeth (1948) us.imdb.com /title/tt0040558   (328 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Hitchcock's bad 1948 film damaged the play, but not so Keith Baxter's excellent revival, now at Wyndhams Theatre after opening at the Chichester Festival last year. It has the nerviness of *Macbeth*, post-Duncan, and the scariness of *Psycho*, pre-shower. Brandon and Granillo hide the body in a chest, throw a tablecloth over it, and invite the victim's father, aunt and assorted friends to dinner: "You sit at the head." But Rupert, a louche free-thinking poet, begins to suspect. www.betsyda.com /ash/sources/fintimes041394.txt   (562 words)

Amazon.com: Macbeth (Fully Restored Version): DVD: Orson Welles,Dan O'Herlihy,Roddy McDowall,Jeanette Nolan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Macbeth / McKellen, Dench, Royal Shakespeare Company DVD ~ Philip Casson PLOT SUMMARY: In fog-dripping, barren and sometimes macabre settings, 11th-century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes him king. Macbeth (Educational DVD) DVD ~ J. Bretton Truett www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000B65ZGM?v=glance   (540 words)

Film Facts for Fencers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) FILM FACTS FOR FENCERS Despite the current representation in a TV commercial of the Three Musketeers as brigands who go about divesting unsuspecting diners of their fatty chocolate desserts, Dumas' characters have seen much more appropriate and enjoyable times in theatrical films. The 1948 film starred: Gene Kelly (D'Artagnan), Van Heflin(Athos), Gig Young (Porthos), and Robert Coote (Aramis). The others are primarily martial arts films or sword and sorcery fantasies. members.tripod.com /~FencerGirl/film.htm   (947 words)

O'Herlihy, Plaschkes, Scott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Otto Plaschkes, who produced "Hopscotch," the 1980 film starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, and co-produced "Georgy Girl," a 1966 movie that starred James Mason, Alan Bates and Lynn Redgrave, died Feb. 14 in London after a heart attack. Then he was cast as the father of two boys in "Flipper," which starred a dolphin as the title character. DeHuff made her feature film debut in "Parents" as Deborah Byrnes, the sister whose wedding caused all the havoc in the story line. www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000810098   (562 words)

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Daniel O'Herlihy, Oscar-nominated character actor, 85 He was nominated for a best actor Academy Award in 1954 for his starring role in "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe." Marlon Brando won for "On the Waterfront" that year. O'Herlihy played Macduff in Orson Welles's 1948 film version of "Macbeth" and began a career that included roles as Brigadier General Warren Black in "Fail-Safe" (1964), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in "MacArthur" (1977), and the mysterious cyborg firm executive in "RoboCop" (1987). O'Herlihy's television roles included Doc McPheeters in the early 1960s Western series "The Travels of Jamie McPheeters," and six episodes on the early 1990s cult series "Twin Peaks." His most recent role was as Joseph Kennedy in the 1998 TV movie "The Rat Pack." www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/02/20/daniel_oherlihy_oscar_nominated_character_actor_85   (210 words)

AMCTV.com SHOW - Macbeth Welles's first screen adaptation of Shakespeare was shot on a Republic studios Western soundstage in three days. Even though it looks like a '20s German expressionist film shot on a rubber-boulder-covered Star Trek planet, this low-budget film has a lot going for it. Originally cut to 89 minutes for theatrical release, the film has been restored to Welles's intended 105 minutes. www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=2054-1-EST   (141 words)

Dr. Daniel's Movie Emergency - Quick Checkups [ Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith ] This Barry Sonnenfeld film about alien-busting secret agents is a welcome invasion, providing just the right mix of outlandish wit and smashing effects. [ James Caan, Kathy Bates ] Rob Reiner directs from a Stephen King story, but the true credit for this terrific film goes to the wildly superb Bates as the obsessed and wickedly unvulgar groupie of novelist Caan. The story of an obsessed inventor who drags his family to Central America hurts the audience at times, but deserves a look from true film fans. www.stairwell.com /doc/capsules/caps_m.html   (771 words)

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