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Podcast: Cinema Junkie
Episode: Bonus Episode: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Description: Joel Coen’s "The Tragedy of Macbeth," currently streaming on Apple TV+, came in at number three on my ten best list for 2021. It’s breathtakingly cinematic and delivers Shakespeare’s play in a kind of stripped down, minimalist fashion that removes all excess props, scenery and even color. For a play whose language is soaked in blood, Coen boldly renders it in stark black and white. His adaptation is strikingly clean and crisp even as it is shrouded in fog and darkness.
Coen, making his solo directing debut sans his usual collaborator and brother Ethan, gives us a version of the...