After Distribpix Inc.'s Steven Morowitz and filmmaker Joel Bender unearthed a 35mm print of Orson Welles' 1965 Shakespearean classic—after decades when the film was unseeable—there was hope that it would soon hit theaters. Now there is a definitive restoration from Janus Films, which took 20 years, but not from this source. Janus will present "Chimes at Midnight" in an exclusive engagement at New York's Film Forum and L.A.'s Cinefamily starting January 1, with a rollout to select U.S. cities to follow. Read More: "How a Near-Pristine 35mm Print of Orson Welles' 'Chimes at Midnight' Was Found" The part Orson Welles was really born to play wasn’t Charles Foster Kane, nor the candy-addicted Hank Quinlan, or Harry Lime, or Cardinal Wolsey. It was a character who first appeared 418 years ago, who ducks in and out of several plays contributing bon mots and bad behavior; a wit,...
- 12/15/2015
- by John Anderson and Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Distribpix Inc.'s Steven Morowitz and filmmaker Joel Bender have uncovered an "almost pristine" 35mm print of Orson Welles' "Falstaff, Chimes at Midnight," starring Welles himself as the titular knight, a bawdy, boozing flaneur lifted from Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays and "Henry V." Long unavailable on home video formats due to legal tussles, "Chimes at Midnight" was found tucked among tens of thousands of pounds of film elements owned by Morowitz, who evidently had been sitting on the print for 20-plus years. "One thing is for sure and that is that the world wants a gorgeous and definitive release of Falstaff," he co-wrote on his blog with Bender. DCPs have floated around various retrospectives, and Bay Area cinephiles have caught a 16mm print of the film at the Pacific Film Archive. The uncut print takes up seven reels, which they took to a film lab for digital processing. But no restoration has been.
- 2/27/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
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