Finally someone remastered and fixed Chimes at Midnight!!! I'm not a huge fan of Welles in general, and I thought Citizen Kane and Magnificent Ambersons were just good but not great. But Chimes at Midnight is freaking awesome. Basically Welles created a movie centered around a Shakespearean character named Falstaff, who's the 'comic relief' in a bunch of plays which are all connected, from Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V. Except Welles edits and shapes things so that Falstaff is the star of this movie.
I'd avoided watching this in the past because the picture was sh!tty and the audio was very problematic. Criterion remastered it this year and has worked a miracle here:
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