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Voodoo Macbeth

Play trailer Poster for Voodoo Macbeth 2022,  1h 48m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 71% 14 Reviews Tomatometer - - Popcornmeter
71% Tomatometer 14 Reviews Popcornmeter
1936 Harlem is a neighborhood battered by economic strife and hardship. With FDR's New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project's Negro Unit, director Rose McClendon convinces co-director John Houseman to help her bring Shakespeare's "Macbeth" to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater -- with an all-Black cast. They choose for their groundbreaking production a gifted but untested 21-year-old director by the name of Orson Welles, whose reimagined Haitian vision for the Scottish play is as daring and fresh as the cast and crew themselves.

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William Bibbiani TheWrap Oct 22, 2022
It’s attractively filmed and, mostly, solidly performed, taking some historical liberties but otherwise getting the gist of the tale out in the open for new generations to discover and appreciate. Go to Full Review
Joe Leydon Variety Oct 21, 2022
The first-ever theatrical release from USC School of the Cinematic Arts enlists multiple directors to dramatize the 'Citizen Kane' director's Shakespearean collaboration with the Negro Theatre Unit. Go to Full Review
Beandrea July New York Times Oct 20, 2022
“Voodoo Macbeth” proves itself to be a textbook white savior film and not much else. Go to Full Review
David Walsh World Socialist Web Site Feb 10, 2023
Like so many artists at present, taking the line of least resistance, Voodoo Macbeth’s makers largely project their own limited concerns and interests back into the past. The results are weak, flat and muddled. Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Feb 5, 2023
2.5/4
Ambitious if occasionally awkward. Go to Full Review
Kenneth R. Morefield 1More Film Blog Jan 6, 2023
2/5
Welles comes across here as a bit of a naifish knave, a slightly less affable version of Shakespeare in Love‘s lovable idiot genius. Go to Full Review
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Dagmawi Abebe

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Víctor Alonso-Berbel

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Roy Arwas

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Hannah Bang

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Christopher Beaton

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Agazi Desta

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Synopsis 1936 Harlem is a neighborhood battered by economic strife and hardship. With FDR's New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project's Negro Unit, director Rose McClendon convinces co-director John Houseman to help her bring Shakespeare's "Macbeth" to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater -- with an all-Black cast. They choose for their groundbreaking production a gifted but untested 21-year-old director by the name of Orson Welles, whose reimagined Haitian vision for the Scottish play is as daring and fresh as the cast and crew themselves.
Director
Dagmawi Abebe, Víctor Alonso-Berbel, Roy Arwas, Hannah Bang, Christopher Beaton, Agazi Desta, Tiffany Kontoyiannis-Guillen, Zoë Alyce Salnave, Ernesto Sandoval, Sabina Vajraca
Producer
Miles Alva, Jason Phillips
Screenwriter
Agazi Desta, Jennifer Frazin, Morgan Milender, Molly Miller, Amri Rigby, Joel David Santner, Erica Sutherlin, Chris Tarricone
Distributor
Lightyear Entertainment
Production Co
Warner Bros. Pictures, Voodoo Macbeth, University of Southern Calfornia
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 21, 2022, Limited
Runtime
1h 48m
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