A new Blu-ray upgrade of the director's 1948 Shakespeare adaptation invites a closer look at the technical and thematic ideas Welles would continue to explore until his death. When asked about the ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: You might notice something very unusual when you fire up The Tragedy of Macbeth, the latest movie from Joel Coen now on Apple TV+. Aside from major movie stars like ...

Revisit Orson Welles’ 1948 adaptation of the Scottish play, available on Blu-ray, ahead of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival production, running now through Aug. 11. Courtesy: Republic PIctures But ...

Orson Welles’ horror-tinged, loose adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedies returns to Blu-ray in Macbeth: Special Edition (Kino Lorber, not rated, 119 minutes, 1:33:1 aspect ratio, ...

For some theater fans, the 1936 production of the “Voodoo Macbeth” (as it became commonly known) is the stuff of legend. Funded by the Federal Theater Project, which gave financial aid to the ...

Macbeth (Mercury Production; Republic), as Actor-Director Orson Welles tells it in this movie, is not quite the great tragedy of a noble man gone wrong; it is more the story of a dead-end kid on the ...

At 20 years old, Orson Welles may have had a lot to learn. But at that age, he directed an all-Black cast in a production of “Macbeth” by the Negro Theater Unit in Harlem that became a sensation and ...

Focusing on the 1936 theatrical production of Shakespare’s “Macbeth” with an all-Black cast directed by an inexperienced 20-year-old Orson Welles, “Voodoo Macbeth” highlights the chaos and beauty that ...

EXCLUSIVE: USC Originals has scored its first theatrical release, in association with Warner Bros., following Lightyear Entertainment’s acquisition of its film, Voodoo Macbeth. The company behind the ...

The bravura opening shot of Orson Welles‘ “Touch of Evil” — in which the camera begins on a close-up of a ticking bomb and then pulls back to present the bomb’s journey to detonation via a dizzying ...