Decider

The Problematics: Examining Roman Polanski’s Traumatized Take On ‘Macbeth’, Financed By None Other Than Hugh Hefner

William Shakespeare’s action-packed tragedy of ambition, betrayal, murder, and pesky stains that just won’t wash out, Macbeth, has a vexed reputation among Real Theatre People. Legend has it that the ...
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Austin Film Society presents Shakespeare Our Contemporary: Macbeth

Roman Polanski's Macbeth is the Altamont of Shakespeare movies, a cinematic repository of deep, dark, bad vibrations, brilliantly brought to the screen by one of the most talented and troubled ...
Los Angeles Times

Which ‘Macbeth’ is for you? Depends. How sparse or how bloody do you want it?

Joel Coen’s film adaptation of “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, arrives a mere six years after Justin Kurzel directed Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard ...
Gold Derby

Roman Polanski movies: 15 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include ‘Chinatown,’ ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ ‘The Pianist’

Roman Polanski celebrates his 86th birthday on August 18, 2019. Though his personal tragedies and demons have sometimes overshadowed his work, there’s no denying the impact this Oscar-winning director ...