Bridget Gellert LyonsChimes at Midnight: Orson Welles, Director: 0011 (Rutgers Films in Print series)

Un livre utile et complet pour apprécier un grand film

This movie makes a good interlude while reading Simon Callow's magisterial (now in four volumes) biography of Welles. CHIMES is a startling film. It's also a reminder of something that has not been, at least as far as I can discern even in a direct way by Callow, publicly addressed: that while the West in general has allowed millions of cultural excrescences, Orson for most of his redoubtable life, couldn't find work. Welles' struggles subsequent to THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS in general and his tribulations and vicissitudes with FALSTAFF in particular are, one might argue, indictments against a culture, a time, and an industry known as "the pictures." For anyone who cares about high-art and not merely aesthetic fabrications divorced from the sublime precincts of human achievement, CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT is one of those so-called "must-see" films--and this book is a must-read for those with taste, perspicacity, and, perhaps above all, conscience.

this has remained my favorite movie ever since seeing in in 1969 in London. The dialog is so rich that I wanted this book for that alone. Interviews and essays only make it better

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Great book in a great series.