exhilarating meditation on Sir John Falstaff, the cheerful, slovenly, degenerate knight whose unwavering and ultimately self-destructive loyalty to Henry of Monmouth, or Prince Hal, his companion ...

While Falstaff is typically characterized as a rowdy, womanizing hooligan who draws Hal into the seedier elements of England’s underbelly, Welles depicts him as a tragic hero whose merits are ...

Falstaff continues to debauch himself and engage in a variety of antics. He hears of another rebellion stirring and goes to the country to recruit men to defend the throne. Meanwhile, Prince Hal ...

Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat’s tongue, you bull’s pizzle, you stock-fish!” This is Sir John Falstaff, in Shakepeare’s “Henry IV, part I,” mincing no words as he berates young ...

Hal (Timothée Chalamet), wayward prince and ... the aging alcoholic knight, John Falstaff (Joel Edgerton).

Prince Hal, son of King Henry IV, seems to be squandering his life away with the fat knight Sir John Falstaff and the whores, boozers and petty rogues of Eastcheap. But beside these scenes of ...

Falstaff continues to debauch himself and engage in a variety of antics. He hears of another rebellion stirring and goes to the country to recruit men to defend the throne. Meanwhile, Prince Hal ...