A slightly earlier start this week at 4:45pm to make room for live broadcast of The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde at 7pm.
The Tragedy Of Macbeth is Joel Coen's first film on his own without his brother and it is a bold one; stripping away all the Coen Brothers normal detail – even shooting in black and white.
"zeroing in on the essential details of Shakespeare's tale of how a hunger for power can curdle into madness and death... his adaptation cuts the play down to a lean 105 minutes of Macbeth plotting, killing, and unravelling as he faces his ultimate downfall, trying to cling to the prophecies that propelled him to power. The sparseness of the script matches the modesty of the staging." - David Sims, The Atlantic