Citizen Kane
Blu-ray - 2021
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 this film remains fresh and galvanizing for every new generation of moviegoers to encounter it.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Films à clef
Journalism films
Fiction films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection
[2021]
- Language
- English
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- Edition
- Three-Blu-ray special edition
- Item Description
- Title and credits from screen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1941.
New 4K digital restoration.
Special edition features on disc 1: 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 ; on disc 2: The complete Citizen Kane (1991): a rarely seen feature-length BBC documentary; Working on Kane (interviews from 1990 with editor Robert Wise, actor Ruth Warrick, optical-effects designer Linwood Dunn); On Toland (interviews from 1990 with cinematographers Allen Daviau, Haskell Wexler and Vilmos Zsigmond); Craig Barron and Ben Burtt (new program on the film's special effects by film scholars and effects experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt); new video essay by Orson Welles scholar Robert L. Carringer; new interview with critic Farran Smith Nehme; Reframing "Kane" (film scholar Racquel J. Gates on the film's fame); interview from 1990 with filmmaker Martin Scorsese; Stills photography with commentary by Roger Ebert; The opening: the world premiere of Citizen Kane; trailer ; on disc 3: My guest is Orson Welles (new documentary featuring archival interviews with Welles); Knowing Welles (interviews from 1990 with filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich, Henry Jaglom, Martin Ritt, and Frank Marshall, and cinematographer Gary Graver); Interviews with actor Joseph Cotten from 1966 and 1975; Program featuring a 1996 interview with actor William Alland on his collaborations with Welles; Mercury Thatre (a selection of Mercury Theatre on the Air radio plays featuring many of the actors from Citizen Kane and television programs from 1979 and 1988 featuring appearances by Welles and Mercury Theatre producer John Houseman); The hearts of age: a brief silent film made by Welles as a student in 1934. - Physical Description
- 2 v. (3 videodiscs) (approximately 119 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray; region A; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; LPCM monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
- Production Credits
- Photography, Gregg Toland ; editing, Robert Wise ; music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann ; art director, Van Nest Polglase ; costumes, Edward Stevenson.
- ISBN
- 9781681438948
- [v. 1.] Disc 1. Feature film
- Disc 2. Special features
- [v. 2.] Disc 3. Special features (cont.)