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Othello
Licensor Information
Westchester Films
Directed by: Orson Welles
Featuring: Micheál MacLiammóir, Robert Coote, Orson Welles, Suzanne Cloutier, Hilton Edwards, Nicholas Bruce, Michael Laurence
Gloriously cinematic despite being made on a tiny budget, Orson Welles’s Othello is a testament to the filmmaker’s stubborn willingness to pursue his vision to the ends of the earth. Unmatched in his passionate identification with Shakespeare’s imagination, Welles brings his inventive visual approach to this enduring tragedy of jealousy, bigotry, and rage, and also gives a towering performance as the Moor of Venice, alongside Suzanne Cloutier as his innocent wife, Desdemona, and Micheál MacLiammóir as the scheming Iago. Shot over the course of three years in Morocco, Venice, Tuscany, and Rome and plagued by many logistical problems, this fiercely independent film joins Macbeth and Chimes at Midnight in making the case for Welles as the cinema’s most audacious interpreter of the Bard.
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Othello
European VersionYear: 1952
Time: 90
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
English PCM Mono 1.0
Othello
U.S. VersionYear: 1955
Time: 93
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
English PCM Mono 1.0
Streaming Options
27484.
+23228
Release Information:
Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Discs:
BD-50 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Short Film, Interview, Insert, Documentary, Feature Film
- Audio commentary featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich and Orson Welles scholar Myron Meisel
- Filming "Othello", Welles’s last completed film, a 1979 essay-documentary
- Return to Glennascaul, a 1953 short film made by MacLiammóir and actor Hilton Edwards during a hiatus from shooting Othello
- New interview with Welles biographer Simon Callow
- Souvenirs d’“Otello,” a 1995 documentary about actor Suzanne Cloutier by François Girard
- New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas on the differences between the two versions
- New interview with Ayanna Thompson, author of Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America
- Interview from 2014 with Welles scholar Joseph McBride
- An essay by film critic Geoffrey O'Brien
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