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Title: Citizen Kane (The Criterion Collection)
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
EAN: 0715515270212
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 12/01/2022
Description: In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst–like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the definitive portrait of American megalomania, he also unleashed a torrent of stylistic innovations—from the jigsaw-puzzle narrative structure to the stunning deep-focus camera work of Gregg Toland—that have ensured that Citizen Kane remains fresh and galvanizing for every new generation of moviegoers to encounter it.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES


* New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
* Three audio commentaries: from 2021 featuring Orson Welles scholars James Naremore and Jonathan Rosenbaum; from 2002 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; and from 2002 featuring film critic Roger Ebert
* The Complete “Citizen Kane” (1991), a rarely seen feature-length BBC documentary
* New interviews with critic Farran Smith Nehme and film scholar Racquel J. Gates
* New video essay by Orson Welles scholar Robert Carringer
* New program on the film’s special effects by film scholars and effects experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt
* Interviews from 1990 with editor Robert Wise; actor Ruth Warrick; optical-effects designer Linwood Dunn; Bogdanovich; filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Henry Jaglom, Martin Ritt, and Frank Marshall; and cinematographers Allen Daviau, Gary Graver, and Vilmos Zsigmond
* New documentary featuring archival interviews with Welles
* Interviews with actor Joseph Cotten from 1966 and 1975
* The Hearts of Age, a brief silent film made by Welles as a student in 1934
* Television programs from 1979 and 1988 featuring appearances by Welles and Mercury Theatre producer John Houseman
* Program featuring a 1996 interview with actor William Alland on his collaborations with Welles
* Selection of The Mercury Theatre on the Air radio plays featuring many of the actors from Citizen Kane
* Trailer
* English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
* PLUS: Deluxe packaging, including a book with an essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
Studio: The Criterion Collection
Language: English
Director: Orson Welles
Actor: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick
Rating: MPAA PG
No Of Discs: 3
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)
Release Year: 2022

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