The Criterion Collection’s upcoming release of Citizen Kane is brimming with choice extras that will delight even those most jaded enthusiast.
Along with a new restoration, Criterion is loading the box set special features including the BBC documentary The Complete Citizen Kane, a televised 1979 reunion of Orson Welles and former partner John Houseman and no fewer than three audio commentaries.
The 4K UHD with three Blu-ray set has a suggested price tag of $59.95, while the three-Blu-ray set is $49.95. Both sets will be released on November 23.
The features include:
• 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 supplements
• 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, a rarely seen 1991 BBC documentary
• Revisiting “Kane,” a new interview with 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 Bogdanovich, editor Robert Wise, actor Ruth Warrick, and optical-effects designer Linwood Dunn; 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
• Episode of The South Bank Show from 1988 featuring Mercury Theatre producer John Houseman
• Episode of The Merv Griffin Show from 1979 featuring Welles and Houseman
• Trailer
• An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
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