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SUBJECTS
Chimes at Midnight
(Campanadas a medianoche)
(Falstaff)
Digital Restoration
featuringChimes at Midnight . . . may be the greatest Shakespearean film ever made, bar none
Vincent Canby, New York TImes
Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau,
Drawn primarily from Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, with additions from other plays and Holinshed’s Chronicles, Welles’s interpretation of the life and death of “this great hill of flesh,” Sir John Falstaff, is both acutely personal and faithful to the language and spirit of Shakespeare. In a comic and stirring elegy that echoes the senile Shallow’s refrain, “Jesus, the days that we have seen,” Welles plays the canny fool Falstaff as a living emblem of a dying world. His Merrie England of jostling vulgarity is visually contrasted with the settings of stark majesty from which Henry IV (John Gielgud) uneasily reigns.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Orson Welles
Based On
Plays by William Shakespeare
Cinematographer
- Edmond Richard
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 116 mins
Source
- Janus Films/Criterion Collection
CINEFILES
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View Chimes at Midnight documents
Orson Welles the unknown (program note), Harvard Film Archive, 2008
It's (not) all true: Orson Welles (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, James Quandt, 2000
Orson Welles 1915-1985 (program), Rocky Mountain Film Center, 1986
The fourteen nights of Orson Welles (program), Mayfair Repertory Cinema, Charles Higham, 1972
Falstaff (program note), San Francisco International Film Festival, 1968
Jack le fataliste (article), Cahiers du Cinema in English, Jean-Louis Comolli, 1967
Welles rings 'Chimes at midnight' (review), New York World Journal Tribune, Judith Crist, 1967
Falstaff (review), Independent Film Journal, 1967
Chimes at midnight (review), Sight and Sound, James Price, 1967
Welles on Falstaff (interview), Cahiers du Cinema in English, 1967
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