‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ NYFF Q&A with Joel Coen, Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington and more

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The 59th edition of the New York Film Festival officially kicked off on September 24, 2021 with the Opening Night selection, the world premiere of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, presented by Campari.

At the film’s press conference, Joel Coen and select members of his cast, including Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie Carvel, Harry Melling, and Moses Ingram, in conversation with NYFF’s Director of Programming, Dennis Lim. Their wide-ranging discussion covers McDormand’s previous experience with the play to Washington’s history with Shakespeare, journeying all the way back to his days as a college student close by Film at Lincoln Center. Previous film adaptations of Macbeth are also discussed, as are the different acting styles that were encouraged on set.

The Tragedy of Macbeth opens in theaters on December 25 from A24 and will premiere on AppleTV+ beginning January 14.

To learn more and get tickets for this year’s NYFF, taking place through October 10 indoors and outdoors throughout NYC, visit https://filmlinc.org/nyff.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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