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Othello

Blu-Ray - 2017 Blu-ray 822.33 Sh T7, Adult Blu-ray / Nonfiction / Performing Arts / Othello 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Call Number: Blu-ray 822.33 Sh T7, Adult Blu-ray / Nonfiction / Performing Arts / Othello
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally screened with a dubbed-Italian soundtrack in Rome, Italy, in 1951, and later released with its original English-language soundtrack in Europe (1952), and in the U.S. and U.K. (1955).
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Based on the play by William Shakespeare.
Accompanying insert comprises film credits, information about the transfers, and an essay by film critic Geoffrey O'Brien.
Special features: Audio commentary from 1995 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich and Orson Welles scholar Myron Meisel (only available with 1955 version); "Return to Glennascaul", a 1953 short film made by actors Micheál MacLiammóir 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 François Girard; new interview with scholar François 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.
[disc 1] Othello : 1952 version (93 min.) -- [disc 2] Othello : 1955 version (91 min.) -- [disc 3. Bonus documentary film] Filming "Othello" / by Orson Welles (1979) (83 min.).
Orson Welles (Othello), Micheál MacLiammóir (Iago), Suzanne Cloutier (Desdemona), Robert Coote (Roderigo), Fay Compton (Emilia), Hilton Edwards (Brabantio), Nicholas Bruce (Lodovico), Michael Laurence (Cassio), Doris Dowling (Bianca).
Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.
Blu-ray, region A, fullscreen (1.37:1); monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
Blu-ray disc; requires Blu-ray player.
Contents: Othello.

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