{"id":541,"date":"2016-03-24T15:07:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=541"},"modified":"2016-03-24T15:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:07:40","slug":"special-showing-of-macbeth-at-the-film-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2016\/03\/24\/special-showing-of-macbeth-at-the-film-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Showing of Macbeth at the Film Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We borrowed the university&#8217;s very own film theatre for a special showing of\u00a0Justin Kurzel&#8217;s\u00a0new interpretation of <em>Macbeth<\/em>. English and Creative Writing students were joined by students from other degrees, friends, family and staff\u00a0for a great afternoon in the dark (with apologies to Graham Greene for nearly stealing his line).<\/p>\n<p>The film itself is dark and brooding, set in\u00a0an atmospheric Highland landscape which is a character in its own right. This is not a landscape of castles and pomp, but of barrenness and struggle. The delivery is faithful to the original, as unadorned as the landscape and brilliantly understated, making the action even more menacing. Any moments of Shakespereian levity are edited out. Kurzel\u00a0re-imagines the supernatural sequences in a new and original way, adding innovative nuances to what should be a deeply mined narrative. Macbeth (Fassbender) and his Lady (Marion Cotillard) stand out in a stand-out cast.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph gives it 5 stars\u00a0and says it is &#8216;one of the great Shakespearean movies&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The play is on the GCSE syllabus too, and this is a fine introduction to the text.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk\/Resources\/filmtheatrebuild.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk\/\">Stoke Film Theatre programme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We borrowed the university&#8217;s very own film theatre for a special showing of\u00a0Justin Kurzel&#8217;s\u00a0new interpretation of Macbeth. English and Creative Writing students were joined by students from other degrees, friends, family and staff\u00a0for a great afternoon in the dark (with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2016\/03\/24\/special-showing-of-macbeth-at-the-film-theatre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40459,40445,40444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-the-culture-room","category-the-student-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}