Citizen Kane (Criterion Collection) (4K UltraHD + Blu-ray)
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4K UltraHD Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: November 23, 2021
- Originally Released: 1941
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane & Agnes Moorehead | |
Performer: | Arthur O'Connell, Walter Sande, Ray Collins, Benny Rubin, Herbert Corthell, Charles Bennett, Ruth Warrick, Georgia Backus, Milton Kibbee, Alan Ladd, Edith Evanson, Paul Stewart, Edmund Cobb, Gus Schilling, Dorothy Comingore, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova, Erskine Sanford, William Alland, Gino Corrado, Harry Shannon & Louise Currie | |
Directed by | Orson Welles | |
Edited by | Robert Wise & Mark Robson | |
Screenwriting by | Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz | |
Composition by | Bernard Herrmann | |
Produced by | Orson Welles | |
Director of Photography: | Gregg Toland |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Rosebud."
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1941 -
Best Original Screenplay: Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles
Entertainment Reviews:
99%
TOMATOMETER
Eerily, it seems to predict the arc of Welles's career, one of great promise eventually betrayed or sold short. Time will never diminish the worth of this movie.
Premiere
...Packed with cool effects and a surprise ending unsurpassed even by THE SIXTH SENSE...
Entertainment Weekly
...[A] masterpiece....[The film] seems more relevant than ever...
Sight and Sound
...KANE remains a source of fascination and inspiration...
Total Film
CITIZEN KANE was a showstopper.
New York Times
...A tour de force of style and an ultimately tragic epic of a quintessentially American captain of industry, it is timelessly brilliant and incisive...
Los Angeles Times
...Its surface is as much fun as any movie ever made. Its depths surpass understanding....CITIZEN KANE is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
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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