#830: WELLES, Orson: Chimes At Midnight (1966)
WELLES, Orson (Spain)
Chimes At Midnight [1966]
Spine #830
Blu-ray
116 minutes
The Booklet
Eight-panel foldout poster featuring an essay by film scholar Michael Anderegg.
Commentary
Featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles.
Interview 1
With actor Baxter.
Interview 2
With director Welles’s daughter Beatrice Welles who appeared in the film at age nine.
Interview 3
With actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow.
Interview 4
With film historian Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
Interview 5
With Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of The Merv Griffin Show.
Trailer
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Chimes At Midnight [1966]
Spine #830
Blu-ray
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary cinematic career, Chimes at Midnight was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff — the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal — here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihereo played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Welles created a gritty and unorthodox Shakespeare film as a lament, he said, "for the death of Merrie England." Poetic, philosophical, and visceral — with a kinetic centerpiece battle sequence that rivals anything in the director's body of work — Chimes at Midnight is as monumental as the figure at its heart.
116 minutes
Black & White
Monaural
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2016
Monaural
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2016
Director
Orson Welles was 51 when he directed Chimes at Midnight.
Other Welles films in the Collection:
#1104: Citizen Kane (1941)
#952: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
#870: Othello (1952)
#322: The Complete Mr. Arkadin (1955)
#1191: The Trial (1962)
#831: The Immortal Story (1968)
#288: F For Fake (1975)
The Film
Other Welles films in the Collection:
#1104: Citizen Kane (1941)
#952: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
#870: Othello (1952)
#322: The Complete Mr. Arkadin (1955)
#1191: The Trial (1962)
#831: The Immortal Story (1968)
#288: F For Fake (1975)
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
Eight-panel foldout poster featuring an essay by film scholar Michael Anderegg.
Commentary
Featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles.
Interview 1
With actor Baxter.
Interview 2
With director Welles’s daughter Beatrice Welles who appeared in the film at age nine.
Interview 3
With actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow.
Interview 4
With film historian Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
Interview 5
With Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of The Merv Griffin Show.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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