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Simon Callow [on Orson Welles’s Chimes at Midnight]

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As an actor, Simon Callow played Falstaff to Keith Baxter’s King Henry IV in a 1998 production of Orson Welles’s stage version of CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT. As an author, he has published three volumes of a Welles biography. In this interview, produced and conducted by Robert Fischer in May 2016 in London, Callow discusses Welles’s nimble adaptation of several Shakespeare plays into one coherent work of cinema.

 

PUBLISHED ON THE FOLLOWING DVDS:

Chimes at Midnight (Criterion: Blu-ray)
Chimes at Midnight (Criterion)