{"product_id":"chimes-at-midnight-criterion-collection-blu-ray","title":"Chimes at Midnight (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eChimes at Midnight (Criterion Collection)\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film 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. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Welles created a gritty and unorthodox Shakespeare film, one that he intended, he said, as a lament... for the death of Merrie England.\" Poetic, philosophical, and visceral-with a kinetic centerpiece battle sequence that rivals anything else in the director's body of work-Chimes at Midnight is as monumental as the figure at it's heart. AKA: \"Falstaff.\" 116 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; audio commentary; featurettes; vintage interview; theatrical trailer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interview with actor Keith Baxter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interview with director Orson Welles s daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the film at age seven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interview with actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterview with Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of The Merv Griffin Show\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubtitles: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNumber of discs: 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRun Time: 116 minutes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDirector: Orson Welles\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarring: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49061980471570,"sku":"715515184311","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/3056189.jpg?v=1715195175","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chimes-at-midnight-criterion-collection-blu-ray","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}