Othello
Directed by Tom Morris
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's all part of a scheme orchestrated by bitter ensign Iago. Filmed live at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London especially for the big screen. From TMDB
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60 of 212 · most liked firstParkbus is a service that helps us car-less city dwellers get out into nature. They had a special deal for only $30 round trip from Vancouver to the Othello Tunnels in the Coquihalla Canyon and also the town of Hope, which leans into the fact it's the filming location for the Rambo movie First Blood
neutral · AI labelView post →Linehan will lose his mind when he finds that tv and film have always used interpretation to convey a message. Sir Patrick Stewart playing a WHITE Othello, and Sir Ian Mckellen playing Richard III set in a 1930’s Nazi England. But nothing beats writing a programme that stereotypes Irish people.
neutral · AI labelView post →"You know I played the lead in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2015 production of Othello" "Oh that's neat.." "I also wore a cool hat in a Star Wars movie" "HOLY SHIT THAT WAS YOU? What's the Yoda puppet like?"
neutral · AI labelView post →Riding high on the success of Aladdin 2: Return of Jafar, Disney decides to pilfer from Shakespeare this time. In March of 1995, the world witnesses the release of Disney's Othello. The *entire* reason for this movie's existence is to have Gilbert Gottfried as Iago. Not just like a funny casting joke, he's the parrot from Aladdin. He wears like a hat and vest in this one or something, and no one ever mentions Aladdin or Agrabah, but it's like Baloo in TailSpin, you know damn well it's the same…
neutral · AI labelView post →11/27/51: Orson Welles' Othello Astonishing production, film More: @jhoberman.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/m... Katherine Bayford/ @bwdr.bsky.social: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2021/12/19/o... @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching HAMNET (2025). Director: Chloe Zhao. Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal. My last film was Orson Welles' adaptation of Shakespeare's OTHELLO, so might as well dive into Zhao's picture about tragedy & inspiration in Shakespeare's life. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Suzanne Cloutier in the Orson Welles film "Othello" - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching OTHELLO (1951). Director: Orson Welles. Orson Welles, Micheal MacLiammoir. Oh shit... Know things just got serious when Orson Welles gets all Shakespearean in your face. Shot over 3 troubled years in Italy & Morocco, Welles at his most independent. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 870
positive · AI labelView post →You know what's a good movie? O, from 2001, a high school retelling of Othello, in modern language. Came out 12 days before 9/11 and got lost in the shuffle (this after being delayed two years) because of Columbine. Mekhi Phifer, Josh Hartnett, Julia Stiles. It's on Criterion.
neutral · AI labelView post →In the late 80s the BBC wanted to film JEJ as Othello but Equity blocked it. Because there were no Black British actors at the time (ahem) they ended up using a blacked-up Anthony Hopkins 🙄
neutral · AI labelView post →“Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.” ~ Othello (A1,S3). #ShakespeareSunday #MelBrooks #FlicksOfMyYears
neutral · AI labelView post →Othello on stage, Hannibal, Black Panther 3, Othello the movie, and King Lear is such an epic road to a much deserved retirement. Prayers up that we get it all.
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day (10th January) in 1985, the Scala Cinema was showing The Immortal Story (1968), short film The Hearts Of Age (1934), Othello (1951) and The Stranger (1946) as part of Orson Welles Day.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.”~ Othello (A1,S3). #ShakespeareSunday #MelBrooks #FlicksOfMyYears
neutral · AI labelView post →11/27/51: Orson Welles' Othello Astonishing production, film More: @szacharek.bsky.social: www.villagevoice.com/orson-welles... Bayford/ @bwdr.bsky.social: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2021/12/19/o... Hoberman: www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/m... @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
neutral · AI labelView post →“God save the Queen!” (Richard 3) Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier and Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Command film performance of Othello 1966 #ShakespeareSunday
neutral · AI labelView post →His movie portrayal of Othello gets mentioned far too rarely.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fuck it. Believe me or don't. I made a documentary that got C&Dd by Netflix. It was about Orson Welles and the final movie he made in '71 that didn't get finished until 2021 (by Netflix). In researching Welles, I discovered a rediculous amount of information about him that is not at all publically known. His children? One daughter lives in New York. Another in Sedona. But there's also the two he had out of wedlock in secret. (Both of which have documentaries about them) And then I…
neutral · AI labelView post →All Night Long is an Othello plot in the jazz world, basically a one-set movie. I would love to hear your thoughts; and I also like Sapphire, which has great London location work.
neutral · AI labelView post →#filmsky Among the films that must be experienced on a big screen, Orson Welles’ gorgeous Othello surely ranks high. Totally ignored by Hollywood, #OTD in 1952, the film won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival; it’s still one of my favorite Shakespeare movies. Welles makes a grand Othello.
positive · AI labelView post →The BLACK PANTHER 3 news is neat, but I'm pumped that those who can't make it to the Broadway OTHELLO will get a chance to see Denzel play the role on film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Denzel Washington says he will retire from acting after his next batch of films: • A film about the military leader Hannibal • ‘Black Panther 3’, Ryan Coogler is writing him a part • A new film with Steve McQueen • A film adaption of ‘Othello’ • ‘King Lear’ project
neutral · AI labelView post →The In Conversation with Geoffrey Sax also reveals he was asked to direct the first block of New Who (off the back of doing Othello with Eccleston for Julie Gardner rather than the TV movie specifically) and imagine the parallel universe where that intitial block wasn't a disaster to make.
neutral · AI labelView post →May 10, 1952: 5th Cannes Film Festival: "The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice" directed by Orson Welles and "Two Cents Worth of Hope" directed by Renato Castellani jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film.
neutral · AI labelView post →"I understand a fury in your words, but not the words." ~ Othello (A4,S2). #ShakespeareSunday #Film #70s
neutral · AI labelView post →A ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ marathon + Shakespeare for my #LastFourWatched! 🧟♀️ BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) boxd.it/dp2vcF 👰🏻♀️ THE BRIDE (1985) boxd.it/dqyak7 💃THE BRIDE! (2026) boxd.it/dqEvmb 🎖️ OTHELLO (2026) boxd.it/dr0kIT 📽️ #filmsky #film #LetterboxdFriday #BrideOfFrankenstein #TheBrideMovie
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember how centrists and right-wingers reacted when Bright Sheng was asked to take the rest of the semester off after he inexplicably and unapologetically showed Laurence Olivier's reviled film version of "Othello" to his music composition seminar class?
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched this last night. Othello. Everyone and their dog in the world of brit jazz (mingus and brubeck rep the US) at that time makes an appearance, the music is predictably sublime. Not sure the film makers fully understood how spliffs work, though.
neutral · AI labelView post →O Algorithm, Lend thy gracious ear, Send me fair maids and lads, if thou dost hear Whose souls do burn with love for Shakespeare’s page, And treasure all the wisdom of his age. #shakespeare #romeoandjuliet #othello #theatre #film
neutral · AI labelView post →I kinda get Emily Wilson’s frustration with changing Odysseus’s characterization even if I disagree, but that’s nothing compared to the new “Scrooge had some good ideas” film. Imagining other hypothetical examples of this. A Captain Ahab who just wants to go home? An Othello who talks to his wife?
neutral · AI labelView post →A terrific Technicolour Western version of Othello, a ropey old British murder mystery, Clint’s ‘get off my lawn’ film, and a pretty good brand new low-budget horror #LastFourWatched
positive · AI labelView post →These are the same people who freak out whenever ANY black actor is cast in a Shakespeare play/film---INCLUDING "Othello" or "Titus Andronicus."
neutral · AI labelView post →A Welles film that isn’t talked about nearly enough is Othello (one of the big six, for me): boxd.it/1LG3z
positive · AI labelView post →Current fave black and white movie? Basil Dearden's fun 1962 noir All Night Long, a retelling of Othello set at a swinging London jazz party, with Patrick McGoohan as a conniving drummer in the Iago role breaking up the interracial couple. Both Mingus and Brubeck show up, too. Great little film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Quiz Question: The theme to The Apprentice UK is taken from an adaptation of a Shakespearean play, but which one? A) a film of Macbeth. B) a radio pay of Othello. C) a ballet of Romeo and Juliet. Answer….eventually! #TheArchers
neutral · AI labelView post →A ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ marathon + Shakespeare for my #LastFourWatched! 🧟♀️ BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) boxd.it/dp2vcF 👰🏻♀️ THE BRIDE (1985) boxd.it/dqyak7 💃THE BRIDE! (2026) boxd.it/dqEvmb 🎖️ OTHELLO (2026) boxd.it/dr0kIT 📽️ #filmsky #film #LetterboxdFriday #BrideOfFrankenstein #TheBrideMovie
neutral · AI labelView post →Remem. #MaggieSmith on her Birthday♥️. Oscar winner for THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE & CALIFORNIA SUITE. Nom for GOSFORD PARK, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT & OTHELLO. 13 BAFTA Film noms/won 5. Plus 2 Hon BAFTAS. Below In THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE #TCMParty #BOTD #FilmSky #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →None of the performances were bad! Some were in fact very good! The direction and conception of the production failed SO HARD. Kenny Leon I think you should fucking commit and make a modern military Othello movie.
negative · AI labelView post →Denzel Washington, who stars alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in the new Broadway production of Shakespeare's 'Othello,' prefers to think of himself as a theater actor before a film star. | 📷️: Getty; Julieta Cervantes Read more: bit.ly/41ZBZ19
neutral · AI labelView post →You may remember me from TV's Law & Order, or from film roles in The Shawshank Redemption, Othello, and Pootie Tang. If you do remember, you are incorrect. I'm not in any of those things.
neutral · AI labelView post →The McKellen RICHARD III takes liberties with the script, chopping harshly to get it down to a reasonable run time, but McKellen's performance makes the cuts worth it. The Fishburne/Branagh OTHELLO has great performances but doesn't quite work as a film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Letterboxd last four Friday. The disappointing Lynch/Oz and three solid British films. All Night Long (1962) is a terrific vibe film, a reworking of Othello set in an after hours jazz club (Charles Mingus and Dave Brubeck drop by). And the great Murder in the Red Barn with villainous Tod Slaughter.
neutral · AI labelView post →That moment when the VC is still reeling from the brutal ending of Othello (2001)........but then you are quickly reminded that it is still a made for TV British movie...... @doomstruck.myatproto.social @spoox22.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Hard to recommend an Othello movie starring Anthony Hopkins with darkened skin in the title role, but Hoskins’s Iago is honestly one of my favorite performances of Shakespeare.
positive · AI labelView post →The teen high school Othello drama O from 2001 is technically a 90s film* (release was delayed due to Columbine) *Complimentary
neutral · AI labelView post →May 10, 1952: 5th Cannes Film Festival: "The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice" directed by Orson Welles and "Two Cents Worth of Hope" directed by Renato Castellani jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film.
neutral · AI labelView post →This 1962 film is an updated version of William Shakespeare's Othello, set in the London jazz scene of the 1960s. The action takes place in a single evening, during an anniversary party.
neutral · AI labelView post →What of Orson Welles's abridged Shakespeare plays? His film versions of Othello and Macbeth? His Chimes At Midnight? *shudder*
negative · AI labelView post →Finished! Fucking amazing. I can't get out of my head that Heathcliff is somehow equal parts Edmond Dantes (The Count of Monte Cristo), Iago (Othello), & Snape (That Fucking Thing). Why the hell the recent movie (which I have not seen) was marketed as a romance baffles & terrifies me. 💙📚
neutral · AI labelView post →different, the Indian film “Haider” (2014) is a loose Hamlet adaptation that I reeeally loved. The director has done similar adaptations of Macbeth and Othello that I really want to see. Those are the best ones I can remember rn, I hope that helps!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →That waS in 1951, they did it again in 1955. Sergei Bondarchuk played Othello in another film! (He was Ukrainian!)
neutral · AI labelView post →I still find it hilarious that all the "blackface controversy" happened, and they keep busting out the white actors doing Othello in blackface. Patrick Stewart did Othello. He didn't do any fucking blackface.
neutral · AI labelView post →#QuickSidenote So imagine this… Tony Joe White, The Swamp Fox, is cast as Cassio in a psychedelic, denim-drenched, acid-etched rock musical version of Othello… Shot in the godforsaken New Mexico desert. Catch My Soul. Welcome to 1974, baby! #TonyJoeWhite #CatchMySoul #OneHitWondered
neutral · AI labelView post →Othello. It's a good movie, but he's great in it.
positive · AI labelView post →Coming this January 15th, the critically acclaimed Bollywood reimagining of Shakespeare’s Othello—OMKARA! Directed by Vishal Bharadwaj, the film unfolds in the politically charged heartland of rural India, where a government enforcer suspects his wife of infidelity. tinyurl.com/5f2mapj4
neutral · AI labelView post →To be fair, I can see why people may not want to mention that movie considering Laurence Olivier played Othello. Remember watching it in high school and even in 2007 we were cringing so hard.
negative · AI labelView post →11/27/51: Orson Welles' Othello Astonishing production, film; took home the grand prize at Cannes More: -Geoffrey O’Brien: www.criterion.com/current/post... -Zacharek: villagevoice.com/2014/04/23/o... -Brody: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich... -Hoberman: www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →Today in 1985 we lost Orson Welles. To some, he was a one hit wonder, generating lavish praise and Oscar nods for Citizen Kane, then fading into oblivion; but that misses how exciting his self-produced films were; Othello is superb. Among the most innovative film directors, his influence lives on
positive · AI labelView post →New One Shot! It's a Smouldering Moor - sadly, not Laurence Fishburne's performance as Othello in the 1995 movie, but a literal treeless upland that's literally on fire. But it's a good time anyway, thanks to #TrophyGold from @jesseross.com and @gauntletrpg.bsky.social !
neutral · AI labelView post →Lately my spouse and I have been grilling out, going for a walk, playing a game of Othello outside, and soaking in the hot tub instead of just watching TV in the evenings. I mean okay we put a movie on the iPad while we’re doing that but we both have ADHD and at least we’re outside 😂
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