The 59th edition of the New York Film Festival officially kicked off on September 24, 2021 with our Opening Night selection: the world premiere of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, presented by Campari.

At the film's press conference, we welcomed Joel Coen and select members of his cast, including Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie Carvel, Harry Melling, and Moses Ingram, in conversation with NYFF's Director of Programming, Dennis Lim. Their wide-ranging discussion covers McDormand's previous experience with the play to Washington's history with Shakespeare, journeying all the way back to his days as a college student close by Film at Lincoln Center. Previous film adaptations of Macbeth are also discussed, as are the different acting styles that were encouraged on set.

To learn more and get tickets for this year's NYFF, taking place through October 10 indoors and outdoors throughout NYC, visit https://filmlinc.org/nyff.


DIRECTOR: Joel Coen

RELEASE DATE: In Theaters December 25. Streaming on Apple TV+ January 14.

CAST:
Denzel Washington - Lord Macbeth
Frances McDormand - Lady Macbeth
Kathryn Hunter - Witches / Old Man
Bertie Carvel - Banquo
Lucas Barker - Fleance
Brendan Gleeson - King Duncan
Corey Hawkins - Macduff
Moses Ingram - Lady Macduff
Harry Melling - Malcolm
Stephen Root - Porter

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EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS
The Battle of Agincourt - The Shakespeare Companion - 4K Video




In October 2015 we marked the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, a pivotal moment in English history. Yet for such a key moment, the popular understanding of the battle is heavily distorted. In this film, Tobias Capwell, our Curator of Arms and ‪Armour‬, explores the myths around Agincourt, and reveals the real story of this fascinating but sobering moment in history. Film by Ben Harvey, music by Alex Painter.

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Maximianno Cobra's Selection

I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror
Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,

Every line of Shakespeare has been commented upon, revised, or deleted and reinstated many times over. His greatest contemporary, Ben Jonson, remarked that Shakespeare should have “blotted a thousand” lines himself; his greatest editor, Samuel Johnson, surveying the inability of previous editors to refrain from improving what they could not understand, attempted to restore Shakespeare’s works “to their integrity.”

Maximianno Cobra's Selection

(...) 'Look, when a painter would surpass the life,
In limning out a well-proportion'd steed,
His art with nature's workmanship at strife,
As if the dead the living should exceed;
So did this horse excel a common one
In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone. (...)

EDUCATIONAL PODCASTS -  [ Historical Series ] - Richard Burton  

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus - Richard Burton - Christopher Marlowe - AUDIO VERSION (1966) - HD Restored - Remastered



Directed By – Denis Comper

CAST
[Dr. Faustus] – Richard Burton
[1st Scholar] – Richard Heffer
[2nd Scholar] – Hugh Williams
[3rd Scholar] – Gwydion Thomas
[Chorus] – Robert Scott
[Cornelius] – Richard Carwardine
[Covetousness] – Phillip Hodson
[Envy] – Antony Braime
[Gluttony] – Alan Moses
[Lechery] – Jenny Moss
[Lucifer] – David McIntosh
[Mephistophilis] – Andreas Teuber
[Pride] – Nicholas Gray
[Sloth] – Patrick Barwise
[Wagner] – David Wood
[Wrath] – Michael Meneaugh


Richard Burton and members of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.
A recording based on the celebrated Oxford production of 1966.
Recorded in England.

AUDIO / IMAGE HD Restoration - Sources and/or Archive copies quality used for this restoration: poor/medium.

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