Posted on 12/22/2021 2:53:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
In Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Inside Llewyn Davis,” Oscar Isaac’s folk musician is trying to make it on his own, without his longtime partner. He travels to Chicago to audition for Bud Grossman, who gives the damning judgment: People need time to get to know you, he says, "buy you as a solo act.”
“The Tragedy of Macbeth,” Joel Coen’s first time directing without his brother, is going much better for him than it did for Llewyn.
An intoxicatingly expressionist Shakespeare adaptation dense in fog and shadow, Coen's “Macbeth” is a solo debut from a filmmaker whose visual virtuosity has never been so starkly drawn in sound and fury. The movie has been hailed as one of the finest film Macbeths — a legacy including Orson Welles’ powerhouse interpretation and Akira Kurosawa’s feverishly atmospheric “Throne of Blood” -- and an unexpected detour from a filmmaking life previously always defined by brotherhood.
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This could be the best Coen film ever, except “Fargo” will be hard to beat.
I didn’t care for Fargo. But McDormand was great on stage as Lady Macbeth.
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I really liked the stylishness of the Orson Welles version(s) (1948) both 107 minutes (lots of heavy Scottish accents) and 89 minutes (lots of unaccented dialogue, and long intro by Welles.) The amazing surreal/impressionistic sets. Both versions are worthy.
Definitely a hard artistic act to follow.
I love the Welles version. I like the longer one with the accents, but I wish he had included the spoken intro to it. A really good stage version of it is the Royal Shakespeare video with Ian McKellen and Judy Dench.
If you’re in the mood for a really bizarre version
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265713/
/no one beats Nicol Williamson’s Hamlet
The Coen’s take on The Odyssey was pretty entertaining. A Coen version of Macbeth could be interesting.
Fargo was indeed one of the best films ever. But my personal favorite is "O Brother Where Art Thou," which was great enough, but the soundtrack of American folk music assembled by T Bone Burnett sent that Coen Brothers film into the stratosphere.
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