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Australian Arts

West Side Story

15 January 2022

9:00 AM

15 January 2022

9:00 AM

How strange to revisit the Nova in Lygon Street, Carlton, where a lifetime of films have been experienced, after an absence of almost two years because of virus lockdowns, and for the film in question to be of a work known since childhood, Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This is a square-shaped black and white version — made by Apple and destined to be streamed — with Denzel Washington as the man born to make himself king by murder, Frances McDormand as his wife Lady Macbeth and her husband Joel Cohen directing.

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