Citizen Kane 4K UHD (1941)

[Akijama]

Citizen Kane 4K Blu-ray 2nd Corrected BD Pressing UPC Sticker 715515270113

Citizen Kane 4K Blu-ray





Citizen Kane 4K Blu-ray 1rst incorrect BD pressing UPC 715515266116

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and three Blu-rays with the film and special features

Three audio commentaries: from 2021 featuring Orson Welles scholars James Naremore and Jonathan Rosenbaum; from 2002 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; and from 2002 featuring film critic Roger Ebert

The Complete “Citizen Kane,” (1991), a rarely seen feature-length BBC documentary

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

Interviews from 1990 with editor Robert Wise; actor Ruth Warrick; optical-effects designer Linwood Dunn; Bogdanovich; filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Henry Jaglom, Martin Ritt, and Frank Marshall; and cinematographers Allen Daviau, Gary Graver, and Vilmos Zsigmond

New documentary featuring archival interviews with Welles

Interviews with actor Joseph Cotten from 1966 and 1975

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 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

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: Deluxe packaging, including a book with an essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri

New Cover by Mike McQuade

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.

[Show spoiler]We’re thrilled to announce Criterion’s first 4K Ultra HD releases, a six-film slate that includes Citizen Kane, Menace II Society, The Piano, Mulholland Dr., The Red Shoes, and A Hard Day’s Night. The first of these editions and their special features will be detailed in our November 2021 announcement next week, with others to follow in subsequent months.

The most dazzling debut in cinema history, Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane was Criterion’s first laserdisc release 37 years ago. It now rejoins the library after a long absence, making its first appearance in 4K Ultra HD along with Allen and Albert Hughes’s riveting breakthrough Menace II Society; Jane Campion’s Academy Award–winning The Piano, starring Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in her breakout role; David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., a tale of love and jealousy in the city of dreams; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s singular Technicolor fantasia The Red Shoes; and Richard Lester’s timeless movie musical A Hard Day’s Night, which brought the Beatles’ revolutionary talent and irreverent humor to the big screen.

Each title will be available in a 4K UHD+Blu-ray combo pack including a 4K UHD disc of the feature film as well as the film and its special features on Blu-ray. Select films will be presented in Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos. Stay tuned for more details in our November

[Spearmint701]

Just got the email. Huge news!!!

[Lord Method Man]

Hmm, might have to expand my collection.

[Modren]

From an email sent through Criterion's mailing list:

We’re thrilled to announce Criterion’s first 4K Ultra HD releases, a six-film slate that includes Citizen Kane, Menace II Society, The Piano, Mulholland Dr., The Red Shoes, and A Hard Day’s Night. The first of these editions and their special features will be detailed in our November 2021 announcement next week, with others to follow in subsequent months.

The most dazzling debut in cinema history, Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane was Criterion’s first laserdisc release 37 years ago. It now rejoins the library after a long absence, making its first appearance in 4K Ultra HD along with Allen and Albert Hughes’s riveting breakthrough Menace II Society; Jane Campion’s Academy Award–winning The Piano, starring Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in her breakout role; David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., a tale of love and jealousy in the city of dreams; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s singular Technicolor fantasia The Red Shoes; and Richard Lester’s timeless movie musical A Hard Day’s Night, which brought the Beatles’ revolutionary talent and irreverent humor to the big screen.

Each title will be available in a 4K UHD+Blu-ray combo pack including a 4K UHD disc of the feature film as well as the film and its special features on Blu-ray. Select films will be presented in Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos. Stay tuned for more details in our November announcement!

[okayflint]

Holy poop. Saw the email and ran here to say woah. I’m a loser

[Tuc0]

Well I'll be

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by BuckarooBanzai

Also Red Shoes, Menace II Society, The Piano, Mulholland Dr, and A Hard Day's Night.

Called it!

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Bet you any money Criterion will break their UHD cherry with Mulholland Drive. Everybody bookmark this post.

[okayflint]

this is going to increase my 4k buying by like 31%. I don’t know if I can keep up

[BluBonnet]

So are the UHD releases going to start all over again with new spine numbers?

[Tylerfan]

My god. They are actually doing it.

[KRW1]

Had to check the date on this one, I thought it might be April again.

[Gunsnroses092789]

Sold! I wonder if they will be MSRP $39.99, or if it will be $49.99.

[Prisonbmichael]

I've never seen this. I know boooo haha. I can't call myself a film buff and I haven't even seen the best movie ever made. I'm in my 20s so I hope I appreciate the film as I am younger. I love rear window,psycho and12 angry men. Need to watch more 30s,40s and 50s films.

[CyberpunkCentral]

Holy shit! This is worth a rebuy.

[beantherio]

Interesting that Warner isn't publishing it (like the previous dvd and blu-ray releases) but Criterion.

[eChopper]

If your gonna come out all guns blazing on UHD , might as well be with the best

[Brian81]

Let us see if Criterion makes a good 4K or not.

[Waldorf]

Originally Posted by Gunsnroses092789

Sold! I wonder if they will be MSRP $39.99, or if it will be $49.99.

Since they include the Blu Ray of the title I would guess $60 for the retail. It would be unlike Criterion if they only charged an extra $10 for the 4k disc.

[Aliados]

Mandatory gif to celebrate the occasion:

[jackranderson]

**** yessss.