Citizen Kane Director: Orson Welles Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore
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- DVD Release Date: 09/25/2001
- Original Release: 1941
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- Sales Rank: 626
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Features
Disc One: Introduction by Peter Bogdanovich, two audio commentaries, one by Bogdanovich and the other by Roger Ebert; 1941 movie premiere newsreel; storyboards, photo gallery; alternative ad campaigns; studio and personal correspondence; call sheets and other memorabilla; original theatrical trailer
Disc Two: The Battle over Citizen Kane, a two-hour making-of documentary with Orson Welles, the stars of Kane, and associates of both Welles and Hearst; rare footage from the San Simeon Estate; Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds radio broadcast; biographical profiles of Welles and Hearst
Scene Index
Side #1 -- CITIZEN KANE
0. Scene Selections
1. Final word. [3:11]
2. News on the March. [9:18]
3. Rosebud dead or alive. [1:52]
4. She won't talk. [2:55]
5. Thatcher Library. [1:17]
6. Leaving home. [4:19]
7. Newspaper fun. [4:19]
8. Might have been great. [2:34]
9. Bernstein's memory. [2:32]
10. The New York Daily Inquirer. [5:01]
11. Declaration of Principes. [2:25]
12. Newspaper party. [5:19]
13. Social announcement. [4:16]
14. Life with Emily. [5:43]
15. Susan Alexander. [4:41]
16. Campaign speech. [:46]
17. Love nest confrontation. [3:06]
18. Love on his terms. [7:02]
19. Night at the opera (I). [4:39]
20. Negative review. [2:07]
21. Trying to prove things. [5:16]
22. Singing lessons. [2:24]
23. Night at the opera (II). [3:51]
24. Suicide attempt. [3:21]
25. Life at Xanadu. [5:49]
26. Everglades picnic. [2:20]
27. Susan walks out. [3:04]
28. Destroying Susan's room. [3:21]
29. Jigsaw puzzle. [4:21]
30. Rosebud. [3:21]
31. Cast and End Credits. [2:23]
Side #2 -- THE BATTLE OVER CITIZEN KANE
0. Chapters
1. Introduction [7:22]
2. An American Saga [3:25]
3. Hearst - Building an Empire [8:51]
4. Welles - A Controversial Career [15:56]
5. Hearst and American Politics [12:18]
6. The War of the Worlds [11:13]
7. Life at San Simeon [15:28]
8. Welles' Arrival in Hollywood [5:50]
9. Filming Citizen Kane [6:58]
10. Attempts to Crush Citizen Kane [16:24]
11. The Decline of Hearst and Welles [9:35]
Editorial Reviews
Citizen Kane is widely hailed as the "great American film" -- and with good reason. From its complex and dazzling narrative structure to cinematographer Gregg Toland's pioneering deep-focus photography to its incredibly rich use of sound, Orson Welles's 1941 picture remains one of the most innovative movies ever to come out of a Hollywood studio. Not bad for a 26-year-old upstart who had never directed a single film. Unfolding almost entirely in flashback, Welles's masterpiece presents various perspectives on the outsized life of the just-deceased Charles Foster Kane, a charismatic newspaper magnate bearing more than a passing resemblance to William Randolph Hearst. (Writers at the Hearst papers waged a campaign in print to have Citizen Kane banned.) Through the reminiscences of friends, family, and coworkers, the film moves from Kane's childhood to his rambunctious adolescence, from the heights of his success to the depths of his isolation -- all the while searching for a clue to Kane's mysterious last word: "Rosebud." The enigmatic phrase drives the tale, but ultimately it is only a means of exploring the film's real theme: the impossibility of truly understanding the heart and mind of any human being. No less a figure than Jorge Luis Borges hailed Kane's "labyrinth without a center" structure. The 60th anniversary DVD edition digs deeper into the Hearst-Welles bond with the addition of a commentary track by Welles acolyte Peter Bogdanovich. Karen Backstein, Barnes & Noble
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