Chimes at Midnight

Double Feature with MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO

(1965) dir Orson Welles w/Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford [113 min; DCP]
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.