But perhaps this all owes to the budgetary restraints. Welbeck Abbey is such a fine location - it looks like a Soviet nightmare, and I want to go there. It also does list it is PAL format, but I had never known that there was anything to that (NTSC is the other format -- and, as it turns out, the important factor in this case, but I had never known i needed to watch for anything other than the Region designation). Nor do I think that the brilliance of Shakespeare's darker plays are usually well-handled by directors. I liked the whole Stalin motif, but setting the play in an underground bunker just smacks of low-budget requirements. This setting for the play really makes the scene with Malcom and Macduff make so much more sense. Another out of time and place Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart. the opening scene was something I've seen so much and hate about Shakespeare productions which is somebody yelling and spluttering elizabethan English so fast and gasping and grunting and you can't understand a single word. Shot on location in the mysterious underground labyrinth of Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire, this is a contemporary presentation of Shakespeare's intense, claustrophobic and bloody drama. I love all Shakespeare, but for some reason Macbeth is not among my favorite works of the Bard. Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2019. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Keep your little bookworms engaged outside of the classroom with our selection of the very best literary adaptations. It's excellent to use along side the play while teaching. S42 Ep7 | Premiere date: Oct 5, 2010 | 02:38:42. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. we saw the stage production this is based on and it is a good film version. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. I would recommend it for anyone studying the play. I want an interesting, variegated, poetic environment; one that does Shakespeare's words justice, and provides an interesting interpretation of the scenes and phrases. The interpretation is well thought, and the performances excellent. Watch the full film of Rupert Goolds Macbeth starring Sir Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood. I love being able to understand every word, Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2020. I admit they did go far with little - there were some impressive scenes here and there.Comparing this production with Ian McKellen's 1995 Richard III movie is very apt; McKellen did enact Adolf Hitler; Stewart did enact Joseph Stalin. Add the first question. 6 of 12 people found this review helpful. That it all sort of took place in hell was perhaps an interesting take, but it's not the kind of thing that resonates with me. The portrayal of the witches was a brilliant wheeze, they create the kind of shock waves a seventeenth century audience would have felt. It is made by people who have an obvious understanding of staging Shakespeare, which in itself is very good. This production proves by far the universal application of The Bards works. Directed by Rupert Goold. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? I saw the stage production in Chichester. Fabulous production and acting. I would give it 10 stars. Was this review helpful to you? Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Consequently, I am difficult to impress when it comes to individual film or DVD productions of the play. Both productions had a war motif, a tyrant motif, murderers serving the king, etc. It had many good things and scenes in it. A limited environment of darkness does nothing of the sort. Select the department you want to search in. Following a London West End run in December 2007, a sold-out limited engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in March 2008, and a subsequent eight-week run on Broadway, director Rupert Goolds gripping stage production of Shakepeares Macbeth was filmed for television at the end of 2009. Nicol Williamson in the BBC version was very underwhelming to me, although Jane Lapotaire as Lady Macbeth was at least as good as, perhaps better than, Francesca Annis in the Polanski version.What was wrong with Patrick Stewart's 2010 version? View production, box office, & company info. Shot on location in the mysterious underground labyrinth of Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire, this is a contemporary presentation of Shakespeare's intense, claustrophobic and bloody drama. Best production of MacBeth Ive ever seen! Patrick Stewart in his triumphant, Tony-nominated performance as the ambitious general, and Tony-nominated Kate Fleetwood as his coldly scheming wife. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 21, 2015. The production of Macbeth was A COMPLETE MASTERPIECE IN LIVE THEATRE and the atmosphere generated by the energy and majesty of Shakespeare's genius was breathtaking. This production now on film may have lost some of the actual magic of a live performance but it has retained the mood and humanity which marks Shakespeare as a master of tragedy. Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2020. Will Patrick Stewart be crowned Emmy champ for 'Macbeth'? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Patrick Steward and Kate Fleetwood are amazing, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2013. While Lady Macbeth is a little melodramatic and her dynamic with her husband is less than stellar, the way they use Macbeth himself to evoke Stalin is brilliant. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. You feel disgusted and sickened by them, not so easy to achieve in an era accoustomed to horror as entertainment. Macbeth Use the HTML below. Starring Sir Patrick Stewart as Macbeth and Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth, Rupert Goold's immediate and visceral film is set in an undefined and threatening central European world. Excellent version, imagined in a shadowy subterranean bunker, with uniforms and iconography reminiscent of Soviet Russia. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2013. Misleading description in the listing means the disc won't play for me, Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2017. This is the best production of Macbeth! Sir Patrick Stewart stars in a gripping Tony-nominated production. But I found it to be too dark (yes, such a thing is very much possible) and in places too dull and drawn-out. The description says this is a Region 1 disc -- U.S. & Canada only. I found it interesting that about a year later on the One Show, Patrick Stewart was asked which was his most fulfilling part he had played in and he replied that he had thoroghly enjoyed a stage show a year earlier. It seems to get increasingly dark as the despotic madness spreads. Starring Sir Patrick Stewart as Macbeth and Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth, Rupert Goold's immediate and visceral film is set in an undefined and threatening central European world. The three Weird sisters are hilarious in their merciless treatment of Macbeth. Good, but not THAT good. However, a fabulous masterpiece it is not. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. Having missed the West End run of this, I'm delighted that it's now on DVD, and that they've done such a superb job of it. I enjoyed watching this much better than the theatrical one that came out in 2018. Students love it! Best of all, they do not take liberties with the dialog. In an "iron curtain" setting, of COURSE Malcom would want to make sure Macduff had moral character rather than just trying to climb the ladder and attain power! What I enjoy the most about this rendition of Macbeth is how bone chillingly scary it is. The period is a chilling 1940's Soviet era where people can suddenly be disappeared and no one feels entirely secure or comfortable.For me it really brings the play to life, the prize of the crown being the power to rule over an entire country. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2014. Also, the Weird Sisters are amazing and creepy as heck the WWI era nurse costumes really add to their otherworldly vibes!! [Video], Stewart, Lee And Romano Land Peabody Awards, Akira Kurosawa's Most Spellbinding Samurai Epics, Post-20th Century Adaptations of Pre-20th Century Literature. Sir Patrick Steward and the Three Witches from PBS Greatest Performances Macbeth (2010) They're good, but considering how marvelously Shakespeare CAN be staged or filmed (think Branagh or Taymor), they are just not THAT good.

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