Chimes at Midnight

“This one is an Orson Welles film, Chimes at Midnight, and it’s Henry the Fourth, Parts One and Two, where Orson Welles plays Falstaff. It’s very interesting, he made it on a shoestring in Spain through many, many years, and some of the actors, you’ll see only their backs because they were unavailable during The Shooting, and the dialogue was put in later. So this is a great tour de force. And it starts off where Orson is talking to a friend... 'We have all heard the Chimes at Midnight ringing.'”

“Oh, Chimes at Midnight, which is a compilation of the Falstaff stories, Falstaff from Shakespeare. Anything that Falstaff appeared in with Orson Welles. And that's actually a very interesting depiction of those times.”

“Chimes of Midnight. This is a Welles film, right? Welles in some ways is still untouched in terms of how he's able to handle certain things. He has a choreography of camera to actors that's—I don't know that it's ever been equaled because it's not just simply the camera move, it's how he's moving the actors. So he's moving the actors, he's moving the camera, he's doing both of those things. So you can see where he has his great sense of stagecraft.”