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Chimes At Midnight (DVD, 1965) Orson Welles Criterion Collection Region 1 NEW
Chimes At Midnight (DVD, 1965) Orson Welles Criterion Collection Region 1 NEW
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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 I 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.
Please note!! This is a Region 1 DVD which can only be played on a Region 1 DVD player or Region Free DVD player!
TWO DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital restoration
• 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 nine
• New interview with actor and Welles biographer
Simon Callow
• New interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
• Interview with Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of The Merv Griffin Show
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Michael Anderegg
The Criterion Collection is dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions of the highest technical quality with supplemental features that enhance the appreciation of the art of film
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