Polanski dissolves to a barren beach on which the witches meet and assemble a ghastly three-dimensional rebus (complete with severed human forearm). Jon Finch’s Macbeth, when we first see him ...

A coven scene featured a plethora of naked witches, their grotesque bodies ... Profoundly pessimistic, Polanski’s version of “Macbeth” is a movie enshrouded in rain and fog.

I found the current Lincoln Center production of Macbeth rather dissatisfying ... believe in witches. And he might want us to believe in them, too. Roman Polanski’s film version of the play ...

Where the witches in Coen’s film are so economical ... down a flight of stairs before having its crown removed. Polanski’s “Macbeth” can be summed up by the title of a film from later ...

Polanski got a great performance ... but there’s also this sort of suggested link between Lady Macbeth and the witches. In the nudity of the sleepwalking sequence, you mean?

Roman Polanski has made two films in Northumberland ... s killed in his mission for power. The three witches have prophesied his death, and Macbeth must be punished for his transgression.

It has witches and multiple murders and a moving forest. How could you not like all that? In short, Macbeth is the ... encroaching madness and disorder. (Polanski's film, by contrast, feels ...

The witches, of course, are unapologetic heretics, while Lady Macbeth, whose first and last ... spiritual imagery from Japanese folklore. Polanski’s 1971 movie, the director’s first after ...

But for Shakespeare devotees who delight in debating the merits and flaws of previous big screen attempts from the likes of Orson Welles and Roman Polanski ... where Macbeth hears the witches ...