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Chimes at midnight [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Orson Welles.

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Criterion Collection, 2016.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Falstaff -- Drama.

English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- Film adaptations.

Great Britain -- History -- Henry IV, 1399-1413 -- Drama.

Great Britain -- History -- Henry V, 1413-1422 -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 830.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Two-DVD special ed.

2 videodiscs (116 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

"Script contains text from five Shakespeare plays primarily Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2, but also Richard II, Henry V, and uses some dialogue from The Merry Wives of Windsor. Ralph Richardson's narration is taken from the works of chronicler Raphael Holinshed."--Wikipedia.

Originally released as a tragi-comedy motion picture in 1966.

Special features: Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of "The magic world of Orson Wells" ; new interview with actor Keith Baxter ; new interview with director Orson Welle's daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the film at age seven ; new interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of "What ever happended to Orson Welles?" ; interview with Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of "The Merv Griffin Show" ; trailer.

A France/Spain/Switzerland co-production (in the English language).

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Director, Orson Welles.

Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, Sir John Gielgud, Marina Vlady and Fernando Rey.

"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 antihero 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."--Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Henry IV. Part 1. Film adaptations.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Henry IV. Part 2. Film adaptations.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Richard II. Film adaptations.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Holinshed, Raphael, -1580? Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande.

Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.

Moreau, Jeanne, 1928-2017

Rutherford, Margaret, 1892-1972.

Gielgud, John, 1904-2000.

Vlady, Marina, 1938-

Rey, Fernando, 1917-1994.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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