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this year, the opening night film, a new adaptation of macbeth starring frances mcdormand and denzel washington. we hope that people enjoy it and respond to it and we'll see what happens. macbeth, the so—called scottish play, has been adopted into more than 25 different movies. we look at those that made an impact. a shocking body horror thriller, titane, this year's big winner at the cannes film festival, came to new york with its director and star. i told myself, pretend you're doing a little show. this is a weird show, butjust have fun with it. there were many festival films with great performances, a real stand—out, benedict cumberbatch in the power of the dog. and some great documentaries, one using animation to chronicle the plight of an afghan refugee fleeing the taliban 25 years ago. and the other, a portrait of the influential new york rock band formed in the 1960s, the velvet underground. like almost every british schoolchild of my generation, i had the works of william shakespeare thrown at me. but i have to admit, the only play of his that i received with a massive amount ofjoy was

but it's his actors who bring it to life, his wife frances mcdormand as lady macbeth and denzel washingtoncbeth, two leads at the forefront of a large ensemble of well—rehearsed american, british and irish actors. we got a chance to rehearse it like a play, well, we actually started working, fran and i and joel, i don't know, a year out, we started reading and sitting down and rehearsing it, but then the company rehearsed for about a month before we started shooting. as the director of the new york film festival told me, audiences will find joel coen�*s macbeth faithful to sha kespeare�*s original work. they'll see a film that very much connects with and hews closely to the language and the wording of the tragedy of macbeth, but it's refreshed in a certain way, refreshed with some of the people that are acting on screen, working behind the camera. this new macbeth won some great reviews and talk of possible oscar nominations for its leads, it was really seen as quite fine cinema. what's striking about this film is that it really turns shakespeare into something cinematic. it looks like a g

but it's his actors who bring it to life, his wife frances mcdormand as lady macbeth and denzel washingtonh, two leads at the forefront of a large ensemble of well—rehearsed american, british and irish actors. we got a chance to rehearse it like a play, well, we actually started working, fran and i and joel, i don't know, a year out, we started reading and sitting down and rehearsing it, but then the company rehearsed for about a month before we started shooting. as the director of the new york film festival told me, audiences will find joel coen�*s macbeth faithful to sha kespeare�*s original work. they'll see a film that very much connects with and hews closely to the language and the wording of the tragedy of macbeth, but it's refreshed in a certain way, refreshed with some of the people that are acting on screen, working behind the camera. this new macbeth won some great reviews and talk of possible 0scar nominations for its leads, it was really seen as quite fine cinema. what's striking about this film is that it really turns shakespeare into something cinematic. it looks like a germa

don't think ellen pompeo would have ever spoken to steven spielberg the way that she did to denzel washingtont think she would have spoken to clint eastwood that way, i don't think she would have spoken to debbie allen that way, but felice, you take it away. what do we make of this? >> i would agree with you with that, and ellen pompeo, let's start by saying what you're not going to do is disrespect uncle denzel, okay? you know, this is a typical case of a white woman, white womaning, right? so we see the disrespect. we see the privilege, then you know at the end she went back to denzel's wife saying that, you know, that she got into argument and she's not talking to him. she became the victim. so really we do not care in this case that ms. pompeo that you have a black husband. we do not care that you have black children and you may or may not have black friends, but you are still wrong, right? and this is not okay and twitter called you out as they should have. you absolutely showed your supremacy, you absolutely showed your privilege, and this is exactly why, you know, we have to continue t