Showing posts with label Othello. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Othello. Show all posts
4/12/12
Orson Welles's Filming Othello
Click here to link to a complete transcription of Filming Othello, Welles's documentary about the trials of making his 1952 film.
4/6/12
Chico State's Humanities Center Will Host a Discussion of Orson Welles's Shakespeare Movies on April 12
On Thursday, April 12, at 4:00 in the Chico State Humanities Center (Trinity 100) Shakespeare professor Robert O'Brien will give a talk on "Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Why Creative People Shouldn't Try to Make Movies." This thirty-minute talk will be followed by a discussion of Welles's Shakespeare movies, especially his 1952 Othello and 1948 Macbeth.
4/4/12
Chico State's University Film Series Will Present Orson Welles's Othello on April 10
Orson Welles's Othello will be shown as part of Chico State's University Film Series on Tuesday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Ayres 106.
This extraordinary film was shot in Italy and Morocco over the course of three years and won the Palme d'Or at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. It was out of circulation for decades, but in 1987 film buffs discovered the negatives in a New Jersey warehouse and began a complicated, million-dollar restoration. Rereleased in 1992, the film employs shadows and camera angles more radical than anything in Citizen Kane to convey the web of envy, deceit, and jealousy that enmeshes the characters.
5/18/11
Which Shakespeare Plays Do Students Read in High School?
I surveyed the students in my upper-division college Shakespeare course to find out which plays they had read in high school.
Most had read Romeo and Juliet (70%) and Hamlet (68%); fewer than half had read Macbeth (39%) or Julius Caesar (36%). Three plays brought up the rear: Othello (31%), A Midsummer Night's Dream (24%), and—surprisingly—The Taming of the Shrew (21%).
The other thirty canonical plays were untouched or had been read by one or two students.
4/20/09
7/25/08
Othello on YouTube
Complete Movie
- Orson Welles's 1952 film with Welles as Othello, Michael MacLiammoir as Iago, and Suzanne Cloutier as Desdemona.
- From Oliver Parker's 1995 film with Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Kenneth Branagh as Iago, and Irène Jacob as Desdemona. Branagh manipulates Michael Maloney (Roderigo) and delivers Iago's first soliloquy.
- From Stuart Burge and John Dexter's 1965 film, starring Laurence Olivier as Othello, Frank Finlay as Iago, Maggie Smith as Desdemona, Joyce Redman as Emilia, and Derek Jacobi as Cassio. Posted by the invaluable ShakespeareAndMore.
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- From Trevor Nunn's 1990 television production with Willard White as Othello, Ian McKellan as Iago, Imogen Stubbs as Desedeoma, and Zoë Wanamaker as Emilia. Starts with Emilia's discovery of the handkerchief. Part one. Part two.
- Olivier, Finlay, Smith, and Redman. Starts at line 247 in The Norton Shakespeare.
- From Jonathan Miller's 1981 television production with Anthony Hopkins as Othello, Bob Hoskins as Iago, Penelope Wilton as Desdemona, and Rosemary Leach as Emilia. Starts at line 338.
- Welles, Cloutier, MacLiammoir, and Fay Compton as Emilia. From the dropped handkerchief.
- Fishburne and Branagh.
- Irène Jacob sings the willow song and gets advice from Anna Patrick (Emilia).
- Olivier and Smith in the opening.
- Olivier from line 57 to the end: part one, part two.
- Hopkins from 127 to the end: part one, part two.
- Welles from 50 to the end.
- Fishburne delivers Othello's last words.
- Filming Othello, a documentary in which Welles discusses his movie in detail.
- Paul Robeson describes the role of Othello.
- Scenes from O, Tim Blake Nelson's adaptation, with Mekhi Phifer as Othello/Odin, Josh Hartnett as Iago/Hugo, and Julia Stiles as Desdeomona/Desi.
- The Reduced Shakespeare Company does the Othello rap.
- Jerry Lee Lewis channels Iago in Catch My Soul, a rock musical adapatation.
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