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Citizen Kane (Blu-ray, 2012)

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That premiere of Orson Welles' CITIZEN KANE was to have a profound and lasting effect on the art of modern motion pictures. Welles off-screen (The War of the Worlds & The Happy Prince). BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVE - The Restoration of Citizen Kane.

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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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Producer
Orson Welles
EAN
5050582910964
eBay Product ID (ePID)
168154812

Product Key Features

Film/TV Title
Citizen Kane
Actor
Edith 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
Director
Orson Welles
Format
Blu-ray
Language
English
Release Year
2012
Features
Anatomy of a Classic - a 50 minute feature presented by Barry Norman\Audio Commentary by Film Historian Ken Barnes\The original film budget\Welles off-screen, the original 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds and Welles' 1945 commerical recording of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince\Blu-ray Exclusive - The Restorarion of Citizen Kane
Aspect Ratio
1.37
Genre
Drama, General
Run Time
119 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate
U
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States of America
Director of Photography
Gregg Toland
Costume Designer
Edward Stevenson
Production Designer
Perry Ferguson, Van Nest Polglase
Reviews
Time 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.
Special Effects
Vernon L. Walker
Consumer Advice
Contains infrequent mild violence
Movie/TV Title
Citizen Kane
Composer
Bernard Herrmann
Sound source
Dolby Digital
Screenwriter
Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
Editor
Mark Robson, Robert Wise

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