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TPR Cinema Tuesdays Series: Chimes at Midnight

The 2016 TPR Cinema Tuesdays Series continues with "Chimes at Midnight."

The crowning achievement of Orson Welless later film career, Chimes at Midnight returns to the screen after being unavailable for decades. This brilliantly crafted Shakespeare adaptation was the culmination of Welless lifelong obsession with the Bards ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff, the loyal, often soused childhood friend of King Henry IVs 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 visceralwith a kinetic battle sequence centerpiece as impressive as anything else Welles directedChimes at Midnight is as monumental as the figure at its center.

115 minutes, Not Rated.

Tickets are available for a suggested price of $10 for TPR Members and $15 for non-members. Proceeds benefit Texas Public Radio.

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