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Kathryn Hunter (Aikaterini Hadjipateras), the real VIP in 'Poor Things' (2023). She stole the show in The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). She's a terribly passive aggressive mother in the Star Wars series 'Andor.' Her voice swims in the same waters as Shohreh Aghdashloo. It's a voice that's distantly related to Tom Waits. Maybe a second or third cousin. Read an interview with her. She's a delight. Always happy to see her.

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favourite movies wached in 2023

8. Raising Arizona (1987) dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Give me that baby, you warthog from hell!

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Baraka (1992) | dir. Ron Fricke

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“Macbeth, unlike Richard III, doesn’t start the play as a villain. He’s a good man who feels conscience and fear. We watch him descend into ruthlessness.”

One important difference between Coen’s film and other stage and screen productions of the play is the age of the central couple. Both Washington and McDormand were in their 60s when the movie was filmed, making them a full generation older than most actors who play the roles.

Having been married for so long, the film’s Macbeths “are people who really know each other,” Kearney said of the characters. “I heard certain lines as I never heard them before, precisely because of their ages. When they’re talking about the murder they’re about to commit, you get the sense of a dance between two people who know each other’s moves.”

“In Justin Kurzel’s 2016 version of ‘Macbeth,’ the couple (played by Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard) were younger, and they had just lost a child,” noted McNamara. “The fact they were grieving parents played a role in their motivation. This film places more focus on the sense of time running out, and wanting to grab hold of an opportunity before it’s too late. 

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Betty Walker: “Look, Mr. Bigelow, we don’t pay much for alien stories anymore. Two-headed dogs? Two-headed dogs maybe, but aliens are….passé”

Tim: “Two-headed dogs are big”

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The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Joel Cohen

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Memphis

2003

Lee Friedlander

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/arts/design/joel-coen-lee-friedlander-book-photography.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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I want whatever tf these guys have

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Leonard Cohen, 1970. Photo by Joel Bernstein

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My kind of man 🌲

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) | dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

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When Washington first encounters her, however, his response is more quizzical and calculating than astonished, in keeping with his generally naturalistic acting style. Washington is older than the typical Macbeth, and his Lady, Francis McDormand even more so, well past her childbearing years (making his “bring forth men children only” confusing—what once had a double sense, subtextually referring to himself as her child in deed, now lacks a sensible text to underlie), and this grounds his lunge for the throne in a comprehensible motive: he has no time to wait for chance to crown him without his stir. But precisely because it makes his motives more readily comprehensible, it diminishes the dread of his tragedy, the sense of the uncanny that should pervade it.

h/t to Leah Libresco.