Product Description
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Gloriously cinematic despite its tiny budget, Orson Welles's
Othello is a testament to the filmmaker s stubborn willingness to
pursue his vision to the ends of the earth. Unmatched in his
passionate identification with Shakespeare's imagination, Welles
brings his inventive visual approach to this enduring tragedy of
jealousy, bigotry, and rage, and also gives a towering
performance as the Moor of Venice, alongside Suzanne Cloutier as
the innocent Desdemona, and Micheal MacLiammoir as the scheming
Iago. over the course of three years in Italy and Morocco
and plagued by many logistical problems, this fiercely
independent film joins Macbeth and Chimes at Midnight in making
the case for Welles as the cinema's most audacious interpreter of
the Bard.
TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfers of two versions of the film,
the 1952 European one and the 1955 U.S. and UK one, with
uncompressed monaural soundtracks
- Audio commentary from 1995 featuring filmmaker Peter
Bogdanovich and Orson Welles scholar Myron Meisel
- Filming 'Othello,' Welles s last completed film, a 1979
essay-documentary
- Return to Glennascaul, a 1953 short film made by actors Micheal
MacLiammoir and Hilton Edwards during a hiatus from shooting
Othello
- New interview with Welles biographer Simon Callow
- Souvenirs d' 'Othello,' a 1995 documentary about actor Suzanne
Cloutier by Francois Girard
- New interview with Welles scholar Francois Thomas on the two
versions
- New interview with Ayanna Thompson, author of Passing Strange:
Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America
- Interview from 2014 with scholar Joseph McBride
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Geoffrey O'Brien
Review
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Gloriously cinematic
despite being made on a tiny budget, Orson Welles’s Othello is a
testament to the filmmaker’s stubborn willingness to pursue his
vision to the ends of the earth. Unmatched in his passionate
identification with Shakespeare’s imagination, Welles brings his
inventive visual approach to this enduring tragedy of jealousy,
bigotry, and rage, and also gives a towering performance as the
Moor of Venice, alongside Suzanne Cloutier as his innocent wife,
Desdemona, and Micheál MacLiammóir as the scheming Iago.
over the course of three years in Morocco, Venice, Tuscany, and
Rome and plagued by many logistical problems, this fiercely
independent film joins Macbeth and Chimes at Midnight in making
the case for Welles as the cinema’s most audacious interpreter of
the Bard.
TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfers of two versions of the
film, the 1952 European version and the 1955 U.S. version, with
uncompressed monaural soundtracks
- Audio commentary featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich and
Orson Welles scholar Myron Meisel
- Return to Glennascaul, a 1953 short film made by MacLiammóir
and actor Hilton Edwards during a hiatus from shooting Othello
- New interview with Welles biographer Simon Callow
- New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas on the
differences between the two versions
- New interview with Ayanna Thompson, author of Passing Strange:
Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America
- Interview from 2014 with Welles scholar Joseph McBride
- More!
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Geoffrey O’Brien /* Style
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