Perspectives on Othello: Joseph McBride on Orson Welles / 2014

Welles scholar Joseph McBride discusses the 1952 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. (A 32-minute edit of this documentary was presented by the Criterion Collection in their edition of Othello.)

The Ballet of Othello / 1960

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.

Othello / 19558.03 voti

Soviet film of the Shakespeare play.

In Othello /

Within the Delhi based English theater group, a crisis in the personal and professional relationships of the actors is doomed to make a mockery of their attempts to stage Othello. Shakespeare's central motifs of jealousy in love, and prejudice due to cultural differences, closely resemble what is happening among the cast and the play starts to amplify and precipitate their problems towards a tragic conclusion. Yet is it in fact the spirit of the play that is doing this? SYNOPSIS A multicultural theater company in today’s New Delhi is staging a production of Shakespeare’s Othello. The director takes a bold step by casting an inexperienced small town actor as Othello. The new actor falls in love with the leading lady, who is also the director’s love-interest, and the two men become bitter rivals. Things become even more complicated as the actors’ theatrical personae start to seep into their lives outside the theater.

Otello / 1909

Ugo Falena version of William Shakespeare's Othello.

Othello-67 / 1967

In half a minute, a person who braked at a traffic light has time to look at the screen of a special roadside demonstration device-a movie comic-a "lightweight" version of the creation of the great classic Shakespeare based on the tragedy "Othello". A parable about how modern civilization devalues world culture.

Dancing Othello / 2002

Shakespearean theatricality meets the subtlety of Kathakali subverted in the dramatic space of street theatre to give birth to a performative ‘caliban’ – Khelkali – a hybrid act of articulating the post colonial irony of contemporary India.

Doppia vita / 19477.01 voti

Un attore interprete di ruoli comici trova il grande successo interpretando l'Otello accanto alla ex moglie che veste i panni di Desdemona. Le repliche dello spettacolo si succedono per due anni durante i quali l'attore incomincia progressivamente a identificarsi con il suo personaggio, arrivando quasi a strangolare la ex moglie in scena. Ucciderà invece veramente una sua amante prima di suicidarsi in palcoscenico dopo l'ultimo monologo.

O come Otello / 20015.559 voti

Una volta accettato il fatto che Shakespeare è il più grande sceneggiatore mai esistito e che è davvero difficile prescindere da lui quando si voglia parlare di sentimenti seri, ecco che si ritenta la "contaminazione" così ben riuscita all'esordiente Luhrmann con Romeo+Giulietta: narrare una storia eterna con linguaggio attuale. L'ambiente non è dunque Cipro ma un college della Carolina del sud. Odine (Phifer) è lo studente leader, bravo in tutto, specialmente nello sport, è infatti il capitano della squadra di basket. E' amato da Desi (Stiles), bellissima e figlia del preside. Lo Jago moderno sarebbe Hugo, al quale dà corpo e volto l'emergente Josh Hartnett. La storia si sviluppa, appunto, secondo Shakespeare. Hugo instilla tremenda gelosia in Odine, che alla fine ucciderà l'amata.

Charlot pittore / 19146.02 voti

A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.

Black Commando / 1982

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.

Otello / 19868.02 voti

Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"

Lend Me An Tenor / 2002