DVD : Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780635203
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780635205
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 25, 2001
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 682
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 1941
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About an influential and ruthless publishing tycoon shines in a magnificient 60th-anniversary digital transfer with revitalized digital audio. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/04/2003 Run time: 119 minutes Rating: Pg
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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
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I was very pleased to receive "Citizen Kane" BEFORE THE PREDICTED SHIPPING DATE. I ordered from Amazon because I didn't think it would be available here. But I saw it last week in a store for almost twice what I paid for it. Will certainly order from the seller next time. Shirley
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First, let me get one thing out of the way: Citizen Kane is not the greatest movie ever made. It is the safest choice for the best movie ever made based on who you're trying to kiss up to. The way the critics gush about this movie, you'd think Citizen Kane invented cinematography, nuance, good storytelling, etc. Whoever says that this movie is the greatest movie of all time has only seen fifteen movies. Check out Children Of Paradise, Scenes From a Marriage, Au hassard Balthasar, The Red Shoes, Rashoman, La Dolce Vita, The 400 Blows, The Battle of Algiers, Metropolis, Apocalypse Now, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Making of Citizen Kane, etc, etc, etc. There are thousands of films that can make a strong case for being the greatest film ever made, so I'll just focus on the merits of Citizen Kane.
First, Citizen Kane is loosely based on the life of Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and his rise to the top of the newspaper business. The story is told in a series of flashbacks that are each narrated by an old acquaintance whose account cannot--for various reasons including inebriation and dementia--be completely trusted. However, all of their accounts of Kane's life share a common thread: Kane was incomplete. Everything he bought was a substitute for Rosebud and his stolen childhood, which became fuel for his obsession for power and the love of the public through his newspapers.
Orson Wells played both Kane and himself--a powerful and talented prodigy ... Read More
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It is a spooky night. Atmospheric dramatic music accompanies the camera to a heavily fenced perimeter. The heavy cast iron entry gate shows an ominous logo, a circle with a big K inside it, right next to it a sign saying "No Trespassing" and right then we know we will enter a domain, which is forbidden to anyone but the viewer. In the far distance in the darkness we notice a single lonely light coming from a gigantic mansion, but we still have quite a way to go and so we continue our ghostly journey across this mysterious and haunting estate while we keep an eye on the light, passing a lifeless pond, sculptures, a zoo and all in a more or less state of decay. Suddenly the light coming from the house is extinguished. The music holds its breath, what's going on here? We sense it's more than merely a person going off to bed; the music and preceding images have prepared us for something different.
There's a slow transition and suddenly we are in a room where it's ... snowing? in soft white idyllic looking scenery, midst of which we notice a rather ramshackle house. The camera pulls back and we now realize we were looking inside one of these glass toys, held by a hand that, while its owner expels his last breath, must release its grip and it falls to the ground where it shatters, after which the camera zooms in to the lips of the dying man which can still utter one last word "Rosebud" before closing forever.
This is the magic beginning of a brilliant movie called "Citizen ... Read More
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This movie is the sickest movie ever..i no why its been at the top of the movie list all this time. revolutionary stuff by orson welles
it was worth the money people
if u haven't seen it go buy it... all those majoring in film or just movie buffs starting a collection.. you need this one
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This is a terrific combo -- the classic movie itself on one disc, and the other disc that documents the battle over the movie, led by William Randolph Hearst. I used both discs in my Mass Comm class to show graphically the power of the press and films. Highly recommended.
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starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Dorothy Comingore
directed by: Orson Welles
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Accessories: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780635203
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780635205
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 25, 2001
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 682
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 1941
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