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I've never seen the proper archival version of Othello, just the (apparently botched) 1990's "restoration," once in a theatre, twice on video. As with most of Welles' films apart from Kane, Ambersons, Touch of Evil, and F for Fake, my feelings on it go back and forth. With the rest of his films, sometimes I like them, sometimes I only see the problems. For editing and composition, though, I'll watch any of them. The Trial is the only one that I just plain don't like (though, yes, it still has brilliant moments). I keep trying to see something more through the amazing images, but it just ain't there, I think.

I've always felt Macbeth is massively underrated. Welles' textual edits are a bit dicey, but as a film of the play - even shot on the ultra-cheap in 23 days for Republic Pictures - it's quite amazing.