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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Directed by: Orson Welles
Featuring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, Paul Stewart
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.
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Format:
4K UHD
Blu-ray
Discs:
UHD-100 (1 Disc)
BD-50 (3 Discs)
Total: 4 Discs
Regions:
None (4K UHD)
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
2160p/24
Subtitles:
English
HDR:
Dolby Vision
HDR10
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Newsreel Footage, Theatrical Trailer, Featurette, Documentary, Interview, Video Essay, Short Film, Television Program, Radio Program, Booklet
- Audio commentary from 2021 featuring Orson Welles scholars James Naremore and Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Audio commentary from 2002 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- Audio commentary from 2002 featuring film critic Roger Ebert
- The Complete “Citizen Kane,” (1991), a rarely seen feature-length BBC documentary
- Working on "Kane": Interviews with editor Robert Wise, actor Ruth Warrick and optical-effects designer Linwood Dunn around making Citizen Kane, conducted in 1990 for Criterion's 50th Anniversary LaserDisc edition
- On Toland: Interviews with cinematographers Allen Daviau, Gary Graver, and Vilmos Zsigmond, conducted in 1990 for Criterion's 50th Anniversary LaserDisc edition
- 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
- Interview with filmmaker Martin Scorsese, recorded in 1990 for Criterion's 50th Anniversary LaserDisc edition
- Stills photography with commentary by Roger Ebert
- The Opening: The World Premiere of "Citizen Kane"
- New documentary featuring archival interviews with Orson Welles
- Knowing Welles: Interviews with those who knew Welles, including filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich, Henry Jaglom, Frank Marshall and Martin Ritt, and cinematographer Gary Graver, all conducted in 1990 for Criterion's 50th Anniversary LaserDisc edition
- Interviews with actor Joseph Cotten from 1966 and 1975
- Orson Welles: On the Nose, 2017 program created for the Criterion Channel by David Cairns and Randall William Cook examining Welles' career-long fascination with altering his nose shape to suit the characters he played
- 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 Orson 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
- Deluxe packaging, including a book with an essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
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