Keith Baxter, who starred as Prince Hal in Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight, will introduce the restored movie at the Film Forum in New York on Wednesday, January 6, at 7:30 p.m.
Baxter will engage in an audience Q&A following the screening.
Tickets are $14 and available online.
The restoration premiered in New York and Los Angeles on January 1 and will play in select theaters nationwide in the coming months.
Janus Films is distributing Welles’ favorite film in the U.S. with improvements it made to the 2015 Filmoteca Española restoration. Criterion Collection President Peter Becker detailed those upgrades in a recent interview with Wellesnet.
Chimes at Midnight was filmed in Spain between the fall 1964 and spring 1965 with the backing of Spanish film producers Emiliano Piedra and Ángel Escolano and Harry Saltzman, who co-produced the James Bond films. Alessandro Tasca served as executive producer. As he had done a decade earlier with Othello, Welles invested his own money into the project.
Welles and Baxter continued in the roles they had played on stage in Belfast and Dublin in 1960. They were joined by John Gielgud (King Henry IV), Margaret Rutherford (Mistress Quickly), and Jeanne Moreau (Doll Tearsheet) with Ralph Richardson providing narration. Beatrice Welles, the director’s youngest daughter, reprised her Irish stage role as Falstaff’s young page.
She will introduce a screening of Chimes at Midnight at the Film Forum on Friday, January 8, at 7:30 p.m.
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