Chimes At Midnight (Orson Welles) Part 2

Chimes at Midnight (aka Falstaff) is a 1965 film directed by Orson Welles based around the character of Sir John Falstaff in Shakespeare.
The script contains text from five Shakespeare plays: primarily Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2, but also Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. The film's narration, spoken by Ralph Richardson, is taken from the chronicler Holinshed.

The film was nominated (in 1968) for a BAFTA film award for Welles as Best Foreign Actor. At the Cannes Film Festival Welles was nominated (in 1966) for the Golden Palm Award and won the 20th Anniversary Prize and the Technical Grand Prize. In Spain it won (in 1966) the Citizens Writers Circle Award for Best Film.

Welles held this film in high regard and considered it along with The Trial his best work, he said in 1982 "If I wanted to get into heaven on the basis of one movie, that's the one I'd offer up". Many critics, including Peter Bogdanovich and Jonathan Rosenbaum, also consider it Welles's finest work. The scene depicting the Battle of Shrewsbury has been particularly admired, serving as an inspiration for movies like Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan.

Due to complications concerning the film's ownership, Chimes at Midnight remains unavailable in the United States. It is most readily available as an import DVD from Brazil.

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• falstaff
• shakespeare

[JoeChrisMorris]

I cannot believe I have found this on Youtube

[Crittenberger]

Oh my GOD. DO you actually have the entirety of this on YouTube? That's AMAZING! :O

[rhettpeter83]

thanks so much for the upload!

[JubalCalif]

For a fat man, Orson was pretty light of his feet! I love this movie's art direction and photography. And what a powerful cast! THANKS for posting the whole film !!! :)

[Novak67766]

@FidelCastro128 His daughter wrote a nice little book about him. She does not have much hope TOSOTW will be released. It is a wish I will see it before I am ashes too.

[Novak67766]

@dgjeronimo It is so damn beautiful. It is rare to achieve beauty in movies. It is in the first half of Ambersons, in Othello and in Cocteau's The Beauty and The Beast,

[dgjeronimo]

@Novak67766 @FACTUNTHJU Actually, those walls you see several times along the film are from Avila. The great thing is that even if I recognise some locations, it doesn't break the magic of the film. It looks Shakespeare's times. The 1st dialogue is etched on my mind "Jesus, the days that we have seen / Ha Sir John? Said I well? - We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Robert Shallow - That we have, that we have, that we have, / In faith Sir John we have / Jesus, the days that we have seen"

[gweijai]

I just checked and yes Harry is played by Eddie Izzard.

[FidelCastro128]

Chimes at Midnight was Orson's great film. Curious if The Other Side of The Wind?

Will ever be released.

[Novak67766]

@levanyzzuf There was talk some years ago that, as was tried with his Othello, the sound was going to be fixed and the dialogue was going to be put in sync. It didn't happen.

[Novak67766]

@FACTUNTHJU Spain