Talk:Chimes at Midnight

Film title
The title of this film, Chimes at Midnight, derives from a quote in William Shakespeare's text. This should be included in the article. If it is already there, I missed it. Specifically, the quote is from Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 2, lines 228–229. There, the character Falstaff states: "We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow." Would someone please include this information into the article, if it is not already there? As I said, I myself could not find this information in the article. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 21:26, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

1965 vs.1966
Editors keep changing the date of this article to 1965, so I just wanted to clarify why this is a mistake and that 1966 is correct. Welles did preview the film in December 1965, and then continued editing it before its official premiere at Cannes in May 1966. For whatever reason 1965 has stuck in history since people believe that the film was 100% complete at the 1965 screening. It was not. Even recently people are calling this year (2015) the 50th anniversary of the film, but that is not accurate. Some people ever call it a 1967 film simply because that is the year that it was released in the US. I have no intention of edit warring since its a small matter, but please keep it at 1966 or refer to this talk page subject if you revert it.--Deoliveirafan (talk) 02:37, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm guessing that part of the problem is that IMDB gives December 1965 as its release date in Spain, whereas the American Film Institute gives May 1966 as its release date in Spain. I'd be much more inclined to defer to the authority of the AFI on such matters. --RexxS (talk) 10:32, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Request for additional contributions.
If there are any Spanish speaking editors that are interested in this article, it would be fantastic for them to add material from Esteve Riambau's new book about the film.--Deoliveirafan (talk) 04:42, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Inconsistency: early critical reception
From the article:


 * Welles shot Chimes at Midnight throughout Spain between 1964 and 1965, and premiered it at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, where it won two awards.


 * Initially dismissed by most film critics, Chimes at Midnight is now regarded as one of Welles' greatest achievements …

So the film won two awards when it premiered in Cannes although the critics did not like it at the time? How does this make sense? --Thüringer ☼ (talk) 15:14, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Not sure where you are seeing inconsistency. Have you read the entire article?--Deoliveirafan (talk) 23:24, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

UK title
The UK title of the film is Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight). That's how it's always appeared on-screen. The restoration didn't alter that. You might also note the DVD/Blu-ray covers have the complete two-part title. So that lede sentence should be corrected (like I tried to yesterday) to reflect facts.  F i l m F a n  05:17, 10 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Anyone home?  F i l m F a n  03:10, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

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