This week, you have a chance to encounter both timeless classics and forgotten masterpieces at the cinema.
Macbeth, starring the superb David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, screens in cinemas around the world from London’s Donmar Warehouse. The stage production featured innovative sound design, which the cinema capture works into the mix. These two veteran actors bring tremendous charisma and connection to their roles, and they’re also both movie buffs! It is not to be missed; check online to find out if your local movie theater is screening it.
Then, if Shakespeare’s witches, murder and revenge aren’t enough to satisfy your darker cinematic cravings, check out Highways of Doom: The 16th Film Noir Festival in the Twin Cities. It’s a full month of classics and rarities featuring five thrilling incarnations of this theme: doomed couples and individuals hoping against hope that they can outrun fate.
Meanwhile, “something wicked this way comes” to theaters next month with Seven Veils, a gothic take on Richard Strauss’ opera Salome. It stars Amanda Seyfried as a theater director haunted by the trauma of her former mentor's most famous work. Learn more, including watching the creepy trailer.
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