June 28, 2023
MACBETH (1948) – AFI Movie Club
A stark cinematic rendering of one of the immortal Bard’s most enduring masterworks, MACBETH (1948) bubbles and burns with rich, literate atmosphere by one of the art form’s modern masters, director and star Orson Welles – recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award in recognition of his own inarguable contributions to our global cultural heritage....
November 3, 2015
The AFI FEST Interview: MACBETH Director Justin Kurzel
Writer/director Justin Kurzel broke out of the Australian independent film scene with SNOWTOWN (AFI FEST 2011), a disturbing true crime retelling of a vicious spree of cult murders in the 1990s. Curious, then, that his next feature should be MACBETH, a Shakespeare adaptation that finds Kurzel working on a bigger-budget canvas carried by two Hollywood…
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