Chimes at midnight = Falstaff
Title:
Chimes at midnight = Falstaff
Author:
Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 film director, actor.
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus disc.
Summary:
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career that 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.
General Note:
Photography, Edmund Richard ; music, Alberto Lavagnino.
Adapted from four plays by William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Henry V, Richard II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Originally released as a motion picture under title: Campanadas a medianoche = Chimes at midnight = Falstaff in 1965. English language version released by Peppercorn Wormser, Inc. in 1967.
Widescreen (1.66:1).
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.
Language:
English
Contents:
disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Supplements.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9781681431918
UPC:
715515184410
Format :
DVD
