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Aug 30, 2016 · The crowning achievement of Orson Welles’s extraordinary film career, <I>Chimes at Midnight</I> 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 antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace. Integrating elements from ...
Aug 30, 2016 · The crowning achievement of Orson Welles’s extraordinary film 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 antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace.
Nov 2, 2004 · Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965) Discuss internationally-released DVDs and Blu-rays or other international DVD and Blu-ray-related topics. 165 posts
Nov 3, 2004 · Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965) Discuss internationally-released DVDs, Blu-rays, and UHDs and ...
Apr 7, 2023 · Welles himself reportedly cut an opening scene from Chimes at Midnight/Falstaff just before its release (the director remarked that the scene looked beautiful, but he realized he needed to get the story going more quickly - given the released version already has a quiet meditative pre-credits scene, it seems like a wise choice), but I'm unaware that anyone else (and Harry Saltzman would be that person) made any changes.
Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles New interview with actor Keith Baxter New interview with director Orson Welles’s daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the film at age seven New interview with actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow New interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
Jan 11, 2006 · 830 Chimes at Midnight 831 the Immortal Story 832 the Story of the Last Chrysanthemum 833 Cat People 834 Blood Simple 835 Valley of the Dolls 836 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 837 Dekalog 838 Pan’s Labyrinth 839 Boyhood 840 the Executioner 841 Lone Wolf and Cub — Sword of Vengeance — Baby Cart at the River Styx — Baby Cart to Hades
Aug 14, 2009 · In general I can’t say their film influences were surprising, but I was stunned about what film influenced the battle scenes early on: I figured Alexander Nevsky was the influence, the use of the Prokofiev score possibly leading me to think that, but Brownlow insists it was Welles’ Chimes at Midnight to be the key influence in those scenes, explaining how you could have one long shot of an army, and then have the battle done in close up with about 6 actors, giving the idea of a lot of men.
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Jul 1, 2022 · 830 Chimes at Midnight Orson Welles 831 The Immortal Story Orson Welles 832 The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum Kenji Mizoguchi 833 Cat People Jaques Tourneur 834 Blood Simple Joel Coen 835 Valley of the Dolls Mark Robson 836 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Russ Meyer 837 Dekalog Krzysztof Kieślowski 838 Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro
