Violent, blood-soaked and filled with nudity, Roman Polanski’s 1971 film version of “Macbeth” was intended to be a cinematic jolt -- a raw, realistic portrayal of medieval power plays that would be ...

One ought not to presume a piece of art has anything to do with their creator’s life. With Roman Polanski’s 1971 film of “Macbeth” it’s hard to resist. It was the first film the filmmaker had made ...

Literature Film Quarterly is the longest-standing journal of international adaptation studies. Though we often feature articles that deal with text-to-film relationships and processes of storytelling, ...

Martin Amis, author of London Fields and Money, has long since ranked among the most highly regarded novelists of his generation, and stood, since the passing of John Updike, as our greatest ...

A new five-minute video interview with Polanski and some cast members sheds fascinating light on the production of the film —particularly Polanski’s conception as such and the thought that went into ...

Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble... With those iconic words in The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare created an indelible image of witches that endures to this day.