Join us for a screening of Orson Welles’ “Chimes at Midnight” on Sunday, June 15 at 3pm in our historic Capitol Theatre. This film is part of our Spring/Summer 2025 House Film Series.
🎟️ All tickets are $15 (No Member Passes Accepted). Buy 3 or more films in the series, get 5% off each ticket. Purchase full series, get 15% off each ticket.
🎥 Watch the Trailer:
🎬 Synopsis:
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles’ later film career, “Chimes at Midnight” returns to the screen after being unavailable for decades.
This brilliantly crafted Shakespeare adaptation was the culmination of Welles’ lifelong obsession with the Bard’s ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff, the loyal, often soused childhood friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son, Prince Hal. Appearing in several plays as a comic supporting figure, Falstaff is here the main event: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero, played by Welles with lumbering grace.
Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Welles created an unorthodox Shakespeare film that is also a gritty period piece, one that he called “a lament . . . for the death of Merrie England.” Poetic, philosophical, and visceral—with a kinetic battle sequence centerpiece as impressive as anything else Welles directed—Chimes at Midnight is as monumental as the figure at its center.
The film will be introduced by Gettysburg College Professor Jack Ryan.
🔗 Learn more about our Art House Film Series:
https://appellcenter.org/show/capfilm-chimes-at-midnight-image-sound-silence-art-house-film-series/
Upcoming Films in the Spring/Summer 2025 Art House Series:
- The Exterminating Angel (July 20)
- Persona (August 17)
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