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Chimes at Midnight
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- Drama.
- Comedy.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) 1966
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2019
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career 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, one that he intended, he said, as "a lament . . . for the death of Merrie England." Poetic, philosophical, and visceral--with a kinetic centerpiece battle sequence that rivals anything else in the director's body of work--Chimes at Midnight is as monumental as the figure at its heart
- Participant:
- Jeanne Moreau, Keith Baxter, Orson Welles
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) in 1966
- OCLC:
- 1303726659
- Publisher Number:
- 1239121 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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