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# Chimes at Midnight (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Chimes at Midnight (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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## Customer Reviews

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    A finely crafted work of art from the first frame to the last
  

*by F***H on Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2017*

Until I finally saw Chimes at Midnight, I thought Welles' best picture was Citizen Kane. Touch of Evil was my runner up. But Chimes at Midnight - and this Criterion Blu-Ray restoration is absolutely gorgeous - changed my mind. This is independent Welles at the top of his form. No studio could have made this film. It is a finely crafted work of art from the first frame to the last. The cinematography and editing are pure cinema and the actors! This is not only a tour de force for Welles as Falstaff but Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford and Sir John Gielgud all get meaty parts. Criterion has included some weighty additional commentaries, including one from Beatrice Welles, Orson's daughter, who also appears in the film as Falstaff's page boy. There is also an interview with Welles in the editing room working on Chimes at Midnight, originally seen on The Merv Griffin Show in 1965. I watched this film three times in three days when I first got it - like a great book you just can't put down. A must have for Welles' fans!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Work of genius
  

*by A***T on Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2016*

A movie by a film genius, in Blu-Ray version that is the best I've seen yet.Orson Welles several times adapted Shakespeare's "second tetralogy," the later collection of Shakespeare's plays about English history (Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V) as a single production.  He put earlier versions of this work on the stage in the 1930s and the 1950s.  "Chimes at Midnight" (1965) is Welles's final attempt to boil down Shakespeare's meditation on kingship, English history, friendship, power, and the relations between fathers and sons into a single work--and it is a masterpiece of film.Welles made the movie on a shoestring budget, and he spent all the money he had (and didn't have) on assembling a great cast, which includes Sir John Gielgud (a haunted and chilly King Henry), Dame Margaret Rutherford (Mistress Quickly), Norman Rodway (a wonderfully impulsive and sympathetic Hotspur) Jeanne Moreau (Doll Tearsheet), Keith Baxter (Prince Hal) and himself as Falstaff.  It is not a technically perfect film: there are some post-production problems, many voices only approximately synchronizing with lip movement, some clumsy edits, and so on.  But this is not an exercise in technical-polish-plus-vacuous-content (think the last comicbook-based action film you saw).  This is a profound and beautiful interpretation of Shakespeare's historical vision.I've taught the plays (and used the film) many times over many years.  All I can say is that I wish I had had this version at the time.  Many voices and whole scenes are clearer on the soundtrack, and many images are clearer on the screen.  Welles's original aspect-ratio has been preserved.  The film is more moving and powerful than I have ever seen it.At the very end, in a passage from Henry V, before Falstaff's coffin is painfully wheeled out of the innyard, the silly Mistress Quickly denies that he is in hell, "Nay, he's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom," thus using her habitual malapropisms to discover a transcendent truth.  As with everything else, the Criterion blu-ray version does not "colorize" or falsify this moment, but it clarifies it, and so the scene carries the power Welles wanted it to carry.  We cannot ask for more.  This is a magnificent film in a faithfully rendered version.

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    Criterion Blu-Ray
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016*

I did not have any issues playing this disc so I can't say what's wrong the other reviewers player or disc. The print of this film is amazing. Beautiful black and white and clear sound for the first time. The only draw back to a version this good looking is that you can see when Welles used a stand in for some actors. Especially when Gielgud dies, the picture is so clear I'm wondering why he didn't hang around for the rest of the scene. But this was the way Welles was forced to work. The battle scene has so much more impact now and the extra's including interviews and commentary provide interesting info for fans of Welles. Finally justice for Chimes at Midnight.

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