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Citizen Kane (Blu-ray, 2016)

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CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard Hughes and William Randolph Hearst so much so that Hearst tried to have the film suppressed. Every aspect of the production marked an advance in film language: the deep focus and deeply shadowed cinematography (from Gregg Toland); the discontinuous narrative, relying heavily on flashbacks and newsreel footage (propelled by a script largely written by Herman L. Mankiewicz); the innovative use of sound and score (sound by Bailey Fesler and James G. Stewart, music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann); and the ensemble acting forged in the fires of Welles's Mercury Theatre (featuring the film debuts of, among others, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, and Agnes Moorehead). Every moment of the film, every shot, has been choreographed to perfection. The film is essential viewing, quite possibly the greatest film ever made and, along with THE BIRTH OF A NATION, certainly the most influential.

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ProducerOrson Welles

EAN5051892196185

eBay Product ID (ePID)13048555365

Product Key Features

ActorEdith Evanson, Paul Stewart, Alan Ladd, Louise Currie, Harry Shannon, Dorothy Comingore, Milton Kibbee, Herbert Corthell, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling, Gino Corrado, George Coulouris, William Alland, Benny Rubin, Agnes Moorehead, Georgia Backus, Arthur O'connell, Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten, Charles Bennett, Fortunio Bonanova, Everett Sloane, Ruth Warrick, Edmund Cobb, Walter Sande, Orson Welles

Film/TV TitleCitizen Kane

DirectorOrson Welles

LanguageEnglish

Run Time119 Mins

Release Year2016

FormatBlu-ray

Features75th Anniversary Edition

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificateU

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerBernard Herrmann

Production DesignerPerry Ferguson, Van Nest Polglase

ReviewsTime Out - A film that gets better with each renewed acquaintance., Film4 - With its spirit of visual and narrative innovation, and Welles's precocious, towering central performance, CITIZEN KANE almost lives up to its own reputation as the best of all time., New York Times - CITIZEN KANE is far and away the most surprising and cinematically exciting motion picture to be seen here in many a moon. As a matter of fact, it comes close to being the most sensational film ever made in Hollywood., New Yorker - An ecstasy of light and shadow, of clashing textures and graphic forms, such as hadn't been seen since the silent era., Los Angeles Times - It can be classified as, in a number of aspects, one of the most arresting pictures ever produced., Empire - It remains a gloriously entertaining classic.

ScreenwriterHerman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles

Special EffectsVernon L. Walker

Costume DesignerEdward Stevenson

Sound sourceDolby Digital

EditorMark Robson, Robert Wise

Movie/TV TitleCitizen Kane

Director of PhotographyGregg Toland

Consumer AdviceContains infrequent mild violence