Citizen Kane (1941) [Two-Disc Special Edition] [Latinamerican Release] [DVD9 + DVD5] [2001]

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.








MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Orson Welles
COUNTRY: USA
YEAR: 1941

Cast
Joseph Cotten … Jedediah Leland
Orson Welles … Charles Foster Kane
Dorothy Comingore … Susan Alexander Kane
Agnes Moorehead … Mary Kane
Ruth Warrick … Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Ray Collins … James W. Gettys
Erskine Sanford … Herbert Carter
Everett Sloane … Mr. Bernstein
William Alland … Jerry Thompson
Paul Stewart … Raymond
George Coulouris … Walter Parks Thatcher

Credits
Director Orson Welles
Cinematography Gregg Toland
Music Bernard Herrmann
Editing Robert Wise
Costume design Edward Stevenson
Screenplay Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
Producer Orson Welles, George Schaefer







DVD:
DVD RELEASE: September 25, 2001
STUDIO: Warner Home Video
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.33:1
BLACK AND WHITE
AUDIO: English Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 119 minutes

EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Fab
DVD: Full Single-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: .ISO Image
FILE SIZE: Disc 1: 6.54 GB, Disc 2: 4.37 GB


Disc Features

* Cast & Crew
* Commentary with Peter Bogdanovich
* Commentary with Roger Ebert
* New York Premiere Footage
* Theatrical Trailer
* The Production
* Postprodcution
* Production Notes

Disc 2: 1995 documentary, "The Battle Over Citizen Kane". In English with Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. Menus in Spanish and Portuguese only.




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