This screening features a specialist introduction and an in-person Q&A.

Directed by and starring Orson Welles with John Gielgud, Keith Baxter and Jeanne Moreau. One of the finest Shakespeare films ever made and one of Welles’s supreme achievements, this distillation of the two parts of Henry IV sees Falstaff’s decline and fall as a symbol of the death of Merrie England.

About the season: People often say that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would be writing for the movies. What is startling is how often, since the beginnings of cinema, his plays have been adapted for the screen.

Following a highly successful season devoted to the work of Harold Pinter, Chiswick Cinema now focuses on the infinite variety of filmed Shakespeare and will accompany four major screenings with talks, supplementary showings and celebrity interviews.

When

Sunday 29 November 2026, 7.30pm – 9.46pm

Tickets

£12 | £7 Child, book at chiswickcinema.co.uk.