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 castle-like 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.

Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known easily. Welles plays newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. The result is that every well-meaning or tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event. Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and photographed by Gregg Toland, the film is the sum of Welles's awesome ambitions as an artist in Hollywood. He pushes the limits of then-available technology to create a true magic show, a visual and aural feast that almost seems to be rising up from a viewer's subconsciousness. As Kane, Welles even ushers in the influence of Bertolt Brecht on film acting. This is truly a one-of-a-kind work, and in many ways is still the most modern of modern films from the 20th century. --Tom Keogh

Orson Welles' masterwork dazzles anew 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, rooted in themes of power, corruption, vanity. The American Dream lost in the mystery of a dying man's last word: "Rosebud."

When power, brilliance and ambition clashed, America nearly lost its greatest cinematic treasure. In 1941, 24-year-old Orson Welles wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, a masterpiece many regard as the best film ever made. The alleged subject of the film--publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst--disagreed. This Academy® Award-nominated documentary offers a detailed first-person perspective on this historic clash.

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 castle-like 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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This exclusive release of CITIZEN KANE features a completely restored process that ensures the highes sound & visual quality reproduced in standard play format and closed-captioning. It includes special features: an exclusive documentary on the making of CITIZEN KANE hosted by Robert Osborne and the original theatrical trailer. The standard-size video carton has an additional flip-open front cover page on thick durable card stock which features "Behind the Making of Citizen Kane" with several pictures and information on Orson Wells, Joseph Cotton, Everett Sloan and Gregg Toland (cinematographer).

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Product DetailsOriginal Title:RKO 281 - The Battle Over Citizen KaneActors: Brenda Blethyn - James Cromwell - John Malkovich - Liev Schreiber - Melanie Griffith - Roy ScheiderDirector: Benjamin RossCondition: NEWFormat: DVDFormat Size: WidescreenRuntime: 87 minsLanguage: EnglishRegion code: Region 1 (United States, Canada, Bermuda, U.S. territories)Discs: 1Rating: RGenre: ActionRelease Year: 2000Description: "Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his 'War of the Worlds' radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.Summary written by Greg Bulmash"Your browser does not support iframes.

Orson Welles' masterwork (#1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best American Movies) dazzles anew 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 Academy Award(R) 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". Subtitles: English SDH (Subtitles for Deaf and Hearing Impaired), French and Spanish, Audio Commentary, Interviews, Premiere Newsreel, Stills Gallery. 48-Page Book with Photos, Storyboards and Behind-the-Scenes Info.

The Senitype® is a limited edition art graphic produced from a single frame of motion picture film and includes one frame of corresponding film footage. The artwork begins with the careful selection of a single frame of film that is digitally scanned and expertly reproduced onto art paper using intricate state-of-the-art imaging and printing techniques. The film footage is an actual 35-millimeter film frame reproduced from the original motion picture negative by master film technicians.

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 castle-like 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.

Orson Welles' masterwork (#1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best American Movies) dazzles anew 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 Academy Award 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."

Orson Welles’ timeless masterwork is more than a groundbreaking film. Presented here in a magnificent 70th anniversary digital transfer with revitalized digital audio from the highest quality surviving elements, it is also grand entertainment, sharply acted and superbly directed with inspired visual flair. Depicting the controversial life of an influential publishing tycoon, this Best Original Screenplay Academy Award 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.”

Orson Welles' masterwork (#1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best American Movies) dazzles anew in a superb 70th-anniversary digital transfer. It's grand entertainment, sharply acted (starring 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 Academy Award(R) 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". Orson Welles' 1941 Classic Remastered for Maximum Picture and Audio Clarity with Audio Commentaries by Roger Ebert and Peter Bogdanovich, Interviews with Ruth Warrick and Robert Wise, Premiere Newsreel Gallery of Storyboards, Rare Photos, Alternate Ad Campaigns, Studio Correspondence, Call Sheets and Other Memorabilia; Audio-Only Bonuses: Welles' Legendary 1938 "War of the Worlds" Mercury Theatre Broadcast and the 1940 Radio Program "H.G. Wells Meets Orson Welles" Theatrical Trailer; The 1995 Best Documentary Feature Oscar(R) Nominee; "The Battle over 'Citizen Kane' Chronicling the Clash Between Welles, RKO Studios and Publishing Magnate William Randolph Hearst; The Emmy(R)- and Golden Globe(R)-Winning 1999 Movie "RKO 281" Starring Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith and John Malkovich. Presented in Black & White, Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Russian, Hungarian, Extraordinary Collectibles: 48-Page Book with Photos, Storyboards, and Behind-the-Scenes Info, 20-Page 1941 Souvenir Program Reproductions, 10 Reproductions of Studio Memos and Correspondence, 5 One-Sheet/Lobby Card Reproductions.

Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known easily. Welles plays newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. The result is that every well-meaning or tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event. Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and photographed by Gregg Toland, the film is the sum of Welles's awesome ambitions as an artist in Hollywood. He pushes the limits of then-available technology to create a true magic show, a visual and aural feast that almost seems to be rising up from a viewer's subconsciousness. As Kane, Welles even ushers in the influence of Bertolt Brecht on film acting. This is truly a one-of-a-kind work, and in many ways is still the most modern of modern films from the 20th century. --Tom Keogh

Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known easily. Welles plays newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. The result is that every well-meaning or tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event. Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and photographed by Gregg Toland, the film is the sum of Welles's awesome ambitions as an artist in Hollywood. He pushes the limits of then-available technology to create a true magic show, a visual and aural feast that almost seems to be rising up from a viewer's subconsciousness. As Kane, Welles even ushers in the influence of Bertolt Brecht on film acting. This is truly a one-of-a-kind work, and in many ways is still the most modern of modern films from the 20th century. --Tom Keogh

Orson Welles' masterwork (#1 in the American Film Institute's list of Best American Movies) dazzles anew in a superb 70th-anniversary digital transfer. It's grand entertainment, sharply acted (starring 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 Academy Award(R) 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". Disc 1: Orson Welles' 1941 Classic Remastered for Maximum Picture and Audio Clarity with Audio Commentaries by Roger Ebert and Peter Bogdanovich, Interviews with Ruth Warrick and Robert Wise, Premiere Newsreel Gallery of Storyboards, Rare Photos, Alternate Ad Campaigns, Studio Correspondence, Call Sheets and Other Memorabilia; Audio-Only Bonuses: Welles' Legendary 1938 "War of the Worlds" Mercury Theatre Broadcast and the 1940 Radio Program "H.G. Wells Meets Orson Welles" Theatrical Trailer; Disc 2: The 1995 Best Documentary Feature Oscar(R) Nominee; "The Battle over 'Citizen Kane' Chronicling the Clash Between Welles, RKO Studios and Publishing Magnate William Randolph Hearst; Disc 3: The Emmy(R)- and Golden Globe(R)-Winning 1999 Movie "RKO 281" Starring Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith and John Malkovich. Presented in Black & White, Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Russian, Hungarian, Extraordinary Collectibles: 48-Page Book with Photos, Storyboards, and Behind-the-Scenes Info, 20-Page 1941 Souvenir Program Reproductions, 10 Reproductions of Studio Memos and Correspondence, 5 One-Sheet/Lobby Card Reproductions.

Orson Welles’ timeless masterwork is more than a groundbreaking film. Presented here in a magnificent 70th anniversary digital transfer with revitalized digital audio from the highest quality surviving elements, it is also grand entertainment, sharply acted and superbly directed with inspired visual flair. Depicting the controversial life of an influential publishing tycoon, this Best Original Screenplay Academy Award 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.”

Orson Welles' timeless masterwork is more than a groundbreaking film. Presented here in a magnificent 70th anniversary digital transfer with revitalized digital audio from the highest quality surviving elements, it is also grand entertainment, sharply acted and superbly directed with inspired visual flair. Depicting the controversial life of an influential publishing tycoon, this Best Original Screenplay Academy Award 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." The 70th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book release of Citizen Kane includes 48 pages of film history and more, plus special features and a bonus DVD containing The Battle over Citizen Kane. Special Features: - Orson Welles' 1941 Classic Restored from Original Nitrate Elements in 4K Resolution and Remastered in Dazzling 1080p Hi-Def - Separate Commentaries by Roger Ebert and Peter Bogdanovich - Interviews with Ruth Warrick and Robert Wise - Premiere Newsreel - Stills Gallery and more! - DVD disc containing The Battle over Citizen Kane (1995 Best Documentary Feature Oscar® Nominee)

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The story of an immensely wealthy newspaper publisher, as he is remembered by his friends and former wife after his death. Loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst. Frequently called the greatest film of all time.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: WELLES/COTTEN/COMINGORE/MOOREHTitle: CITIZEN KANEStreet Release Date: 09/24/2002DomesticGenre: DRAMA

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