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Chimes at Midnight ( Spanish: Campanadas a medianoche, released in most of Europe as Falstaff) is a 1966 period comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring Orson Welles.
Chimes at Midnight: Directed by Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, John Gielgud. When King Henry IV ascends to the throne, his heir, the Prince of Wales, is befriended by Sir John Falstaff, an old, overweight, fun-loving habitual liar.
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.
Apr 16, 2022 · Chimes At Midnight. Orson Welles cast himself as Shakespeare’s buffoon Sir John Falstaff, and borrowing elements from Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, and Richard II, assembled an impressionistic and often moving tribute to the grandeur of Shakespeare in Chimes at Midnight (1965; also called Falstaff ).
Jun 4, 2006 · How can it be that there is an Orson Welles masterpiece that remains all but unseen? I refer not to incomplete or abandoned projects that have gathered legends, but to "Chimes at Midnight" (1965), his film about Falstaff, which has survived in acceptable prints and is ripe for restoration.
Sep 13, 2019 · Chimes at Midnight, the 1966 film directed by and starring Orson Welles, constructs a rich, complex, and moving portrait of the larger-than-life Sir John Falstaff, who appears in three of Shakespeare’s plays and is among the best-known characters in all of literature.
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles’s extraordinary cinematic career, Chimes at Midnight was the culmination of the filmmaker’s lifelong obsession with ...
Jan 5, 2016 · In the meantime, though, the Janus “Chimes At Midnight” reveals this late work of Welles as not a near-masterpiece, but a genuine one. It’s funny, heartbreaking, awe-inspiring, bracing. Welles was not deceiving himself when he spoke of it as the film that he hoped would gain him admission to Heaven. Advertisement.
Starring Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, Jeanne Moreau. 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.
Jan 8, 2016 · It’s early in the year, but it’s already the year of “Chimes at Midnight,” Orson Welles’s mighty adaptation, from 1965, of Shakespeare’s plays featuring the colossal character of Falstaff.
