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Citizen Kane

Orson Welles' masterwork (Number 1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best American Movies) dazzles a new in a superb 70th-anniversary digital transfer. It’s grand entertainment, sharply acted (starting many of Welles' Mercury Players on the road to thriving film careers) and directed with inspired visual flair. Chronicling the stormy life of an influential publishing tycoon, this Best Original Screenplay AcademyAward winner (1941) is rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity the American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man’s last word:“Rosebud.”

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Citizen Kane 70th Anniversary Edition (Blu-Ray book)

  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)

  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 6.4 Ounces

  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 24176999

  • Director ‏ : ‎ Orson Welles

  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, Subtitled, Blu-ray, Full Screen, Original recording remastered

  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 59 minutes

  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 17, 2012

  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick

  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Spanish

  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Orson Welles

  • Studio ‏ : ‎ WarnerBrothers

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006CEKZ4Y

  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles

  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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Citizen Kane (The Criterion Collection) [4K UHD]

  • 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo includes one 4K UHD disc of the film + three Blu-rays of the film & special features

  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)

  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.11 x 6.3 x 1.34 inches; 9.91 Ounces

  • Director ‏ : ‎ Orson Welles

  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ 4K, Blu-ray

  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 12, 2022

  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick

  • Studio ‏ : ‎ The Criterion Collection

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09PZ7T7ZK

  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA

  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 4

  • 4K UHD + BLU-RAY COMBO PACK SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

  • 4-DISC EDITION includes one 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and three Blu-rays with the film and special features

  • 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

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Citizen Kane 70th Anniversary Edition (Blu-Ray book)

  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)

  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.76 Ounces

  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 43298295

  • Director ‏ : ‎ Orson Welles

  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, NTSC

  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 114 minutes

  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 15, 2016

  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick

  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Spanish

  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Orson Welles

  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Studio Distribution Services

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01LZ6R8U4

  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles

  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA

  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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