Future Classic Films

Watch "From Orson Welles to Michael Fassbender: A Study of Macbeth's Soliloquy" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/i3p2HnNicug
REVIEWS

A 2024 review of the film in Slant included this evaluation: “Identifying and magnifying the skeletal nastiness of the text, Welles lays out the blueprint for future revisionist takes on Shakespeare’s works. Both Roman Polanski’s nihilistic rendition and Justin Kurzel’s arty 2015 update pull much from what Welles does here. Olivier may have brought out the fulsome color and hard-won optimism of his adaptations during wartime, but Welles plunges into darkness to reckon with an uncertain postwar world. Shot in less than four weeks, the film has a rugged, spartan nature to it, and though it may be one of the director’s minor achievements, that its enduring unpleasantness lends it a modernity that has yet to

Review of Welles’ “Macbeth” from The Boulder Weekly, 2024, Michael Casey
https://boulderweekly.com/entertainment/screen/orson-welles-macbeth-colorado-shakespeare-festival/

Slant Magazine review, 2024, Cole and Wilkins:
https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/macbeth-blu-ray-review-orson-welles/

(This is the review that comes with the Olive (not Criterion)-re-release of the film
Jonathan Rosenbaum’s review:
https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2025/07/orson-welless-macbeths-tk/

The New Yorker, Richard Brody, 2015ç
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/macbeth-10

Online discussion of the movie:
https://youtube.com/shorts/AhCeDebFt0M?si=RIdzpLwlqHT3cUGo