Roman Polanski's Macbeth
As I write this I'm listening to the Third Ear Band's quite wonderful music for Roman Polanski's 1971 film Macbeth, which I love for its thick, infernal atmosphere of violence and insanity, the gloomy...
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I thought it was great fun - I saw it in high school, the teacher rented a 16mm copy with all the nudity and horror intact, and she watched the film through her fingers while we were having a great...
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This has been on my queue for years now, I'll try and watch it this week.
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One of Polanski's greats!The film was criticised as being too violent at the time....thespians pfftt!
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I first saw this in my high school English class; it was the uncut videocassette, but the film was horribly panned and scanned, with the colors faded and washed out. Still, the impact and power of...
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I saw this theatrically and bought the Third Ear Band Lp, too. This was the first film I'd seen in which the sword fights seemed realistic. Those swords and that armor were heavy. Often, the winner...
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Pretty good film this, I got a genuine shock of 'they'd never get away with that these days' at the stabbing of the naked boy. The witches are funny too.
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Very well done. I am also a fan of Throne of Blood, but this one has to take the cake. Beautifully shot.May not be authentic, but it certainly seems so, much as Pasolini's Trilogy of Life films.
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I love the central performances--Finch is brilliant and Annis is spine-chilling, playing Lady M as a disturbed little girl who enjoys pulling the wings off butterflies--and the staging of certain...
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A film that needs a re-release theatrically imo. Smaller houses would be perfect.
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Keep in mind Polanski made this right after his wife was murdered by the Manson crew....I can only imagine what was going through his mind at the time.
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I watched the DVD this past weekend. I'd never seen it before, which I regret, because it's one of the best WS film adaptations I've seen. Polanski really cranks up the horror and supernatural...
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