Fancy Movie Time #31: Chimes at Midnight (1966)
On this episode of Fancy Movie Time with Brian and A.J., the Fancy Lads throw on their Onion Knight armor and do battle with a shaky cam, as they cover Orson Welles' 1966 Falstaff-fest: Chimes at Midnight. Do Welles' magnetic lead performance and adroit dramaturgical whimsy make the movie a Fancy Feast? Or does the film's overwhelming plot and horrific sound quality make it a Failure to Fancy? One thing's for sure: Falstaff would have LOVED Margaritaville.
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assuming everyone is familiar but, in case not https://youtu.be/VJ6v7GHYDbM?si=4dQ23yqF_LSbFrLC
Imogen! Cymbeline is about Cymbeline's daughter Imogen, aka Shakespeare's most forgotten Viola duplicate. Also the only thing I remember from Cymbeline 2015 is the bit where they translate a messenger giving Imogen a message by having a servant come up to her and...hand her an iPhone...with a text message on it. for her to read. they hand it to her. Baz Luhrmann this is not
Other Don Knots movies to add to consideration: The Apple Dumpling gang The Apple Dumpling gang rides again Gus (about a field goal kicking mule) Hot lead and cold feet The love God? (Gosh my childhood was weird. I've seen all these movies except the last one plus the ones y'all mentioned in the episode)
Recommendations for theatre movies: my dinner with Andre, Marat/Sade, and Ran
The prequel to David Cronenberg’s “Chimes of the Future”
Love you guys but wtf is “Henry 4” and “Henry 5”? They’re not fkn Star Wars movie sequels.
I am once again asking you to do animation for fmt
As someone with very little retention of Shakespeare, when I first saw this in early 2019 I interpreted it as Welles’s commentary on the French New Wave acknowledging him as an icon while feeling materially detached from that admiration. This probably was ignorant in a lot of ways, but it’s hard not to see an almost-autobiographical melancholy to his Falstaff performance regardless.