#Macbeth 1979

[mann-walter]

I am watching the 1979 filmed production of Macbeth with Ian McKellen as the lead. I am only on its first one hour, but to say it's good would be an understatement.

The set is only a dark backdrop with lighting. Some reacted to it negatively, but to me it is a gift rather than a flaw. I find that with it, it is much easier to focus on what is said, on what is done, and on how people do it. The costumes and props are also kept minimal to generate the same effect, I think: to highlight the people on-stage and their actions.

PS: I am not a native English speaker. That's another factor that help me to focus more on the thing.

[jocrude]

Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in Macbeth, 1979.

[william-shakespeare-official]

Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.

As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.

Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.

Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.

Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.

Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.

The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.

Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.

The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

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twin peaks 2.22 beyond life and death dir. david lynch / the captain - leonard cohen / ginger snaps (2001) dir. john fawcett / infinity pool (2023) dir. brandon cronenberg / drowning lessons - my chemical romance / antiviral (2012) dir. brandon cronenberg / you are the blood - castanets / scream (1996) dir. wes craven / blood on my hands - the used / saw (2004) b-roll dir. james wan / macbeth act ii scene ii / tom waits by greg gorman for heartattack and vine (1980) / peripety series by jen mazza (2008-09) / blood on our hands - death from above 1979 / the doom generation (1995) dir. gregg araki / crack in the mirror - joan baez / the haunting in connecticut (2009) - dir. peter cornwell / very short story by frank miller

[allupinyourminds]

@pscentral event 26 → minimalism ↳ Notable examples of minimalist cinema

Mad Max (1979) dir. George Miller The Blair Witch Project (1999) dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez It Follows (2014) dir. David Robert Mitchell A Quiet Place (2018) dir. John Krasinski Drive My Car (2021) dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) dir. Joel Coen

[kennethbrangh]

Ian McKellen as Macbeth | Royal Shakespeare Company (1979)

[legobiwan]

out of nowhere ask but i'm currently reading macbeth and i wanted to ask what your favorite productions/adaptations of the play are? (i've watched the 2021 movie with denzel washington already but i heard it cut a lot of content so i'd like to find some more adaptations. currently have my eye on the 2018 rsc production with christopher eccleston but there seem to be mixed reviews of that)

Ooooh great question! Recs below :)

Royal Shakespeare Company (1979) It's an incredibly spartan production in terms of the set, but when you have Ian McKellen and Judi Dench playing the leads, you really don't need fancy backgrounds. This one's my personal favorite filmed production (but YMMV) and as a bonus, The Senate himself, Ian McDiarmid plays both the Porter and Ross.

Throne of Blood (蜘蛛巣城) (1957) An adaptation of Macbeth directed by Kurosawa starring Toshiro Mifune as Taketoki Washizu, set in feudal Japan. I feel like a fair amount of the cinematography in the Denzel Washington adaptation (which I have mixed feelings about) harkens back to this film.

Slings and Arrows, Season 2 I love this show and honestly, it's been way too long since I've rewatched it. The basic premise is that it follows the shenanigans of a Canadian Shakespearean theater company, each season using the production of one play as the backdrop to the day-to-day drama of an arts nonprofit (If you've ever worked in an arts nonprofit, you will cackle). Anyway, Season 2 is based around their production of Macbeth and we do get a fair amount of scenes of the play during course of the show. (Season 1 is based around Hamlet and Season 3 Lear). The show stars Paul Gross and is just absolutely delightful in the way it weaves the plays into the storylines. (You should be able to find it on YouTube).

[mask131]

The witches of Macbeth (1)

For this witchy month I thought of doing a little collection of various incarnations of the Three Witches of "Macbeth" - one of the most famous and influential set of witches in fiction.

In Orson Welles' 1948 movie

In Roman Polanski's 1971 movie

In Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth"

In the 1978/1979 Royal Shakespeare Company performance

In Geoffrey Wright's 2006 movie

In 2015's Justin Kurzel movie

In 2010's movie by Rupert Goold

[red-nightskies]

movies; vibes

tagged by my dearest @jamessunderlandgf to post my 5 favourite movies and have y’all pick my vibe from them :>

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[princess-suzanne]

💗 MOVIE TAGS 💗  

A

🤍 a bear named winnie (2004) 🤍 a dangerous method (2011) 🤍 a fistful of dollars (1964) 🤍 a most violent year (2014) 🤍 a room with a view (1985) 🤍 a royal affair (2012) 🤍 a streetcar named desire (1951) 🤍 a woman is a woman (1961) 🤍 an education (2009) 🤍 agora (2009) 🤍 all about eve (1950) 🤍 amadeus (1984) 🤍 and god created woman (1956) 🤍 angel (2007) 🤍 anna karenina (1948) 🤍 armageddon time (2022) 🤍 the artist (2011) 🤍 ashes and diamonds (1958) 🤍 atonement (2007)

B

🤍 the banshees of inisherin (2022) 🤍 barefoot in the park (1967) 🤍 the beguiled (2017) 🤍 belle (2013) 🤍 the big sleep (1946) 🤍 the bikeriders (2023) 🤍 the birds (1963) 🤍 bonnie and clyde (1967) 🤍 bram stoker’s dracula (1992) 🤍 breakfast at tiffany’s (1961) 🤍 brokeback mountain (2005) 🤍 brooklyn (2015) 🤍 bugsy (1991) 🤍 butch cassidy and the sundance kid (1969)

C

🤍 cabaret (1972) 🤍 captain america: the first avenger (2011) 🤍 carnival of souls (1962) 🤍 carol (2015) 🤍 casablanca (1942) 🤍 casino (1995) 🤍 cat on a hot tin roof (1958) 🤍 chicago (2002) 🤍 cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) 🤍 cleopatra (1963) 🤍 cria cuervos (1976) 🤍 crimson peak (2015)

D

🤍 daisies (1966) 🤍 dangerous liaisons (1988) 🤍 the danish girl (2015) 🤍 dead poets society (1989) 🤍 the debt (2010) 🤍 dirty dancing (1987) 🤍 don’t bother to knock (1952) 🤍 don’t worry darling (2022) 🤍 dracula (1931) 🤍 the duchess (2008) 🤍 dunkirk (2017)

E

🤍 east of eden (1955) 🤍 the edge of love (2008) 🤍 eileen (2023) 🤍 elizabeth (1998) 🤍 elizabeth: the golden age (2007) 🤍 elvis (2022) 🤍 emma (2020) 🤍 the end of the affair (1999) 🤍 the english patient (1996) 🤍 enola holmes (2020) 🤍 the eyes of tammy faye (2021)

F

🤍 fanny and alexander (1982) 🤍 the favourite (2018) 🤍 for a few dollars more (1965) 🤍 funny girl (1968)

G

🤍 gentlemen prefer blondes (1953) 🤍 giant (1956) 🤍 gilda (1946) 🤍 the girl on a motorcycle (1968) 🤍 gladiator (2000) 🤍 the godfather (1972) 🤍 the godfather: part ii (1974) 🤍 gone with the wind (1939) 🤍 the good, the bad and the ugly (1966) 🤍 goodfellas (1990) 🤍 the graduate (1967) 🤍 the grand budapest hotel (2014) 🤍 grand hotel (1932) 🤍 grease (1978) 🤍 the great gatsby (1974) 🤍 the great gatsby (2013) 🤍 guess who’s coming to dinner (1967)

H

🤍 the help (2011) 🤍 high noon (1952) 🤍 hiroshima mon amour (1959) 🤍 how to marry a millionaire (1953) 🤍 how to steal a million (1966)

I

🤍 ida (2013) 🤍 il gattopardo (1963) 🤍 the immigrant (2013) 🤍 in secret (2013) 🤍 inglorious basterds (2009) 🤍 it happened one night (1934)

J

🤍 jane eyre (2011)

K

🤍 the king (2019) 🤍 knife in the water (1962)

L

🤍 la dolce vita (1960) 🤍 la notte (1961) 🤍 la strada (1954) 🤍 ladies in lavender (2004) 🤍 lady chatterley’s lover (2015) 🤍 lady macbeth (2016) 🤍 the lady from shanghai (1947) 🤍 the last duel (2021) 🤍 legend (2015) 🤍 les misérables (2012) 🤍 the light between oceans (2016) 🤍 little women (2019) 🤍 the lover (1922) 🤍 the love witch (2016) 🤍 l’avventura (1960) 🤍 l’eclisse (1962)

M

🤍 macbeth (2015) 🤍 malèna (2000) 🤍 man with a movie camera (1929) 🤍 marie antoinette (2006) 🤍 mary, queen of scots (2018) 🤍 the master (2012) 🤍 meshes of the afternoon (1943) 🤍 miller’s crossing (1991) 🤍 the mirror (1975) 🤍 the misfits (1961) 🤍 moulin rouge! (2001) 🤍 the mummy (1999) 🤍 my fair lady (1964)

N

🤍 ninotchka (1939) 🤍 north by northwest (1959) 🤍 the northman (2022) 🤍 nosferatu the vampyre (1979)

O

🤍 once upon a time in america (1984) 🤍 once upon a time... in hollywood (2019) 🤍 once upon a time in the west (1968) 🤍 operation finale (2018) 🤍 the other boleyn girl (2008) 🤍 outlaw king (2018)

P

🤍 the pale blue eye (2022) 🤍 persona (1966) 🤍 phantom thread (2017) 🤍 the pianist (2002) 🤍 picnic at hanging rock (1975) 🤍 pride & prejudice (2005) 🤍 the prince and the showgirl (1957) 🤍 priscilla (2023) 🤍 the promise (2016) 🤍 psycho (1960) 🤍 the public enemy (1931) 🤍 purple noon (1960)

R

🤍 raging bull (1980) 🤍 rebel without a cause (1955) 🤍 rear window (1954) 🤍 repulsion (1965) 🤍 river of no return (1954) 🤍 the roaring twenties (1939) 🤍 rocco and his brothers (1960) 🤍 roman holiday (1953) 🤍 rosemary’s baby (1968) 🤍 rush (2013)

S

🤍 scarface (1932) 🤍 scarface (1983) 🤍 sense and sensibility (1995) 🤍 the seven year itch (1955) 🤍 the seventh seal (1957) 🤍 singin’ in the rain (1952) 🤍 sissi (1955) [trilogy] 🤍 slow west (2015) 🤍 some like it hot (1959) 🤍 the sound of music (1965) 🤍 splendor in the grass (1961) 🤍 the sting (1973) 🤍 stoker (2013) 🤍 summerland (2020) 🤍 sunset boulevard (1950) 🤍 sweet bird of youth (1962) 🤍 the swimming pool (1969)

T

🤍 their finest (2016) 🤍 the third man (1949) 🤍 this property is condemned (1966) 🤍 titanic (1997) 🤍 to catch a thief (1955) 🤍 to kill a mockingbird (1962) 🤍 tokyo story (1953) 🤍 the two faces of january (2014)

V

🤍 vertigo (1958) 🤍 vita & virginia (2018)

W

🤍 walk the line (2005) 🤍 waterloo bridge (1940) 🤍 west side story (1961) 🤍 white noise (2022) 🤍 who’s afraid of virginia woolf? (1966) 🤍 the wild one (1953) 🤍 wild strawberries (1957) 🤍 woman walks ahead (2017) 🤍 the wonder (2022) 🤍 wuthering heights (1992)

Z

🤍 the zookeeper’s wife (2017)

[cloevr]

tagged by @9cl @clanofxymox

last song?

favorite color?

currently watching?

Vinesauce Eldritch play-through series...

last movie?

Mad Max 1979... planning to watch the 2021 tragedy of Macbeth soon

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yes to all... been really into savory umami and sweet lately though

relationship status?

Shingles

current obsessions?

trying to find this quaint little christmas cookie recipe booklet we've had since i was a kid nobody knows where tf it went

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"spotify kbps" lmfao

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[princesssarisa]

The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 4 (#31 through #40)

A quick guide for newcomers to the genre, with links to online video recordings of complete performances, with English subtitles whenever possible.

Donizetti's Don Pasquale

Another comedy of manners with a melodic bel canto score.

Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, 2003 (Alessandro Corbelli, Eva Mei, Antonino Siragusa, Roberto de Candia; conducted by Gérard Korsrten)

Verdi's Macbeth

The first of Verdi's great Shakespearean operas.

Zürich Opera, 2001 (Thomas Hampson, Paoletta Marrocu, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Luis Lima; conducted by Franz Welser-Möst)

Beethoven's Fidelio

Beethoven's only opera, a drama of love, courage, and idealism in the face of political corruption.

Vienna State Opera, 1979 (Gundula Janowitz, René Kollo, Hans Sotin, Manfred Jungwirth, Lucia Popp; conducted by Leonard Bernstein)

Gounod's Faust

One of the most wildly popular operas in the 19th and early 20th centuries: a melodic French interpretation of the Faust legend.

Vienna State Opera, 1985 (Francisco Araiza, Gabriela Benacková, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Erich Binder)

Richard Strauss's Salome

Strauss's one-act operatic translation Oscar Wilde's erotic and powerful Biblically-inspired play.

Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 2010 (Erika Sunnegårdh, Mark S. Doss, Robert Brubaker, Dalia Schaechter, Mark Milhofer; conducted by Nicola Luisotti)

Puccini's Gianni Schicchi

Puccini's only comic opera, a rollicking one-act farce inspired by a passage from Dante's Divine Comedy.

Teatro alla Scala, 2008 (Leo Nucci, Nino Machiadze, Vittorio Grigolo, Cinzia De Mola; conducted by Riccardo Chailly)

Verdi's Don Carlo

A grand, tragic historical drama of politics, love vs. duty, intergenerational conflict, friendship (of the vaguely homoerotic variety), and abuse of power.

Metropolitan Opera, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Louis Quilico, Grace Bumbry, Ferruccio Furlanetto; conducted by James Levine)

Bellini's Norma

A great bel canto soprano vehicle, depicting a tragic love triangle amid the Roman conquest of Gaul.

Sydney Opera House, 1978 (Joan Sutherland, Margareta Elkins, Ron Stevens, Clifford Grant; conducted by Richard Bonynge)

Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos

A unique "opera within an opera" that explores the themes of comedy vs. drama and "low art" vs. "high art."

Salzburg Festival, 1965 (Hildegard Hillebrecht, Sena Jurinac, Reri Grist, Jess Thomas; conducted by Karl Böhm)

Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)

A groundbreaking early Classical interpretation of the Orpheus myth, replacing the pageantry of Baroque opera with "noble simplicity."

Feature film, 2014 (Bejun Mehta, Eva Liebau, Regula Mühlemann; conducted by Vaclav Luks) (no subtitles; read the libretto in English translation here)

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Tumblr's Guide to Shostakovich: Part 1

Hello, and welcome to a multi-part series of posts I'll be uploading weekly called Tumblr's Guide to Shostakovich, an informative and casual approach to the life and works of Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975), one of the most well-known Russian composers of the Soviet era. I have been researching Shostakovich for the past three years and am very excited to share what I've learned with you all!

Part One- Overview: Who was Shostakovich?

(Yes, he looked like that. Luckily for Tumblr, this series will include plenty of photographs.)

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1906, and died in Moscow in 1975. He was a skilled concert pianist and composer of a variety of works, including 15 symphonies and string quartets, three ballets, operatic and vocal pieces, film music, concerti, and other chamber and orchestral works. In the west, he's most well-known for not just his music, but his complicated relationship with the Soviet authorities since 1936, when his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District was denounced in the state newspaper Pravda on January 28th of that year. Since his denunciation, Shostakovich attempted to compose within the style of Socialist Realism, or an artistic style that intended to display Soviet political and cultural values and be easily accessible, but many of his works from 1936 to 1953 (the year Stalin died) are often interpreted by scholars to contain "hidden meanings" and messages of dissent. This has made Shostakovich both a popular and a controversial composer among western music scholars, who often debate interpretations of his pieces, as well as details on Shostakovich's personal life and political values.

Shostakovich is a difficult figure to research, not only due to the multiple interpretations that exist of his pieces, but also the differing accounts of the man himself. The most infamous example of this is the 1979 book Testimony, written by Solomon Volkov and claimed to be Shostakovich's own memoirs, as transcribed by Volkov himself. Testimony portrays a bitter, angry Shostakovich, vocal in his dissent towards both the government and the Soviet musical establishment. While some scholars and even some who knew Shostakovich side with Testimony as legitimate, others have argued that Testimony is likely partially, if not completely, fabricated. (It is for this reason that I will not be relying on Testimony as a source in this series, but rather primary accounts from Shostakovich's contemporaries and his own correspondence. Secondary sources will be cited, but primary sources will be referred to whenever possible.)

Speaking of primary sources, they also tend to muddle Shostakovich research even further. Many people knew Shostakovich throughout his life, and many different recollections of him, some of them conflicting, will appear from his friends, family, colleagues, and adversaries. For instance, Isaak Glikman and Lev Lebedinsky were both, at one point, friends of Shostakovich. However, when Shostakovich joined the Communist Party of the USSR in 1960, while Glikman and Lebedinsky agree he did not join the Party willingly, their accounts differ in that Glikman claims Shostakovich reluctantly joined the Party to ensure his own stability, Lebedinsky claims he was tricked into signing the official documents while inebriated. There are some sources, like Galina Ustvolskaya, whose recollections of Shostakovich changed with her opinion on him- as their relationship deteriorated, Ustvolskaya recounts Shostakovich increasingly negatively. And there are some accounts based simply on misremembrance, hearsay, rumours, and speculation. Oftentimes, I find myself having to read accounts from multiple primary sources and deciding which ones are the most consistent, without the satisfaction of finding out concrete truth.

Finally, there's Shostakovich himself. While many of his letters to various correspondents survive and have been published in Russian and other languages, Shostakovich's writing is notorious for its use of sarcasm, tautology, literary allusions, and Russian idioms, making it all the more difficult to interpret in translation or even without Russian cultural background. Shostakovich also had a habit of destroying letters after reading them, so of course, many of the letters we do have are missing crucial context. And of course, he constructed a very official public persona (particularly after 1948) that was remarkably different than his private self, adding to the complexity of discerning his own views and opinions.

However, to me, the thing that interests me the most about Shostakovich was his resilience. He lived through a number of catastrophic historical events, personal attacks, and hardships, all of which are documented in his works, many of which provide both insight into the Soviet historical zeitgeist of the time and Shostakovich's personal situation. And yet, despite everything, he kept composing up until his death, with his last work, the Viola Sonata, the only one whose premiere he did not attend. Much has been said about the "depressing" quality of Shostakovich's works, particularly during his Late Period (1954-75), but a wide scope of other emotions exist within his oeuvre, from his wicked sense of grotesque humour to his deep compassion for life and humanity. Despite popular characterizations, Shostakovich was a complex man whose work only proves to be just as complex the more we study it.

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Thank you for reading! The next post will discuss Shostakovich's family history and its deep background in revolution.

[therivershit]

Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in Macbeth, 1979

[forgottenbones]

Tomorrow, and tomorrow -- Ian McKellen analyzes Macbeth speech (1979)

[heavenboy09]

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