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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 01: C.J. Wilson, Matthew Broderick, Heather Burns, Tate Donovan, Kara Hayward, Anna Baryshnikov, Lucas Hedges, Casey Affleck, Gretchen Mol and Kenneth Lonergan attend the "Manchester by the Sea" intro and Q&A during the 54th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on October 1, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images)
That could be a warning about a lot of things including the New York Film Festival, which opens this Friday with Joel Coen’s “Macbeth.”
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star. A24 releases with Apple. It’s in black and white. It’s also Joel’s first movie without brother Ethan. Shakespeare wrote it. And Mel Gibson isn’t in it. Will it work? How can it not?
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