Orson Welles's elegiac follow-up to Citizen Kane, on Blu-ray for the first time in an edition packed with special features. This beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature by Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)the subject of one of cinema's greatest missing-footage tragediesharks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline of the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and characterized by restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotton (The Third Man), Tim Holt (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), and Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane), the film traces the rifts deepening within the Amberson clanat the same time as the forces of progress begin to transform the city they once ruled. Though RKO excised over forty minutes of footage, now lost to history, and added an incongruously upbeat ending, The Magnificent Ambersons is an emotionally rich family saga and a masterful elegy for a bygone chapter of American life. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Two audio commentaries, featuring film scholars Robert Carringer, James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum New interviews with scholars Simon Callow and Joseph McBride New video essay on the film's cinematographers by scholar François Thomas New video essay on the film's score by scholar Christopher Husted Welles on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970 Segment from Pampered Youth, a 1925 silent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons Audio from a 1979 AFI symposium on Welles Two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The Magnificent Ambersons (1939) Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Molly Haskell and essays by authors and critics Luc Sante, Geoffrey O'Brien, Farran Smith Nehme, and Jonathan Lethem, and excerpts from an unfinished 1982 memoir by Welles
Robert Duvall and Beau Bridges star in the complete collection of 23 films.
75TH ANNIVERSARY 4K UHD SPECIAL EDITION Carol Reed's celebrated British noir THE THIRD MAN is widely regarded as The greatest British film of all time'. Brilliantly scripted by Graham Greene and set to Anton Karas' evocative zither score, this justly celebrated classic is further enhanced by Robert Krasker's Academy Award ® winning cinematography and Orson Welles in one of his most iconic screen roles. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton, Citizen Kane), a naïve writer of pulp westerns, arrives in Vienna to meet his old friend Harry Lime (the incomparable Orson Welles) but finds that Lime has apparently been killed in a suspicious accident. Martins, too curious for his own good, hears contradictory stories about the circumstances of Lime's death and as witnesses disappear he finds himself chased by unknown assailants. Complicating matters are the sardonic Major Calloway (Trevor Howard, Brief Encounter), head of the British forces, and Lime's stage actress mistress, Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli). Will Martin's curiosity lead him to discover things about his old friend that he'd rather not know?Pop-up rigid box packaging - The Third Man theme plays on opening64-page booklet with brand-new essaysFully annotated shooting scriptx 4 artcardsPoster of Nico Delort artworkNoreen Ackland on Saving The Third Man (Excerpt from BEHP audio interview)The Third Man A Filmmaker's InfluenceRestoring The Third Man3 Audio Commentary With Guy Hamilton, Simon Callow & Angela AllenJoseph Cotten's Alternate Opening Voiceover NarrationThe Third Man Interactive Vienna TourThe Third Man On The RadioInterview & Zither Performance By Cornelia MayerShadowing The Third Man 3 Guardian NFT Interview Joseph Cotten (Audio Only)Guardian NFT Interview Graham Greene (Audio Only)Behind The Scenes Stills GalleryTrailer
Digitally remastered from original film elements. In May 1941, RKO Pictures released a controversial film by a 25-year-old first-time director. That premiere of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was to have a profound and lasting effect on the art of modern motion pictures. Through its unique jigsaw puzzle storyline, inventive cinematography, brilliant ensemble acting and direction by Welles, the story of Charles Foster Kane is a fascinating portrait of American's love of power and materialism and the corruption it sometimes fosters. Like all great films, Citizen Kane is a memorable fusion of cinematic art and marvellous entertainment, winning an Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay in 1942. Special Features: Anatomy of a Classic - A 50 minute feature presented by Barry Norman Audio Commentary by Film Historian Ken Barnes The Original Film Budget Welles Off-Screen (The original 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds and Welles' 1945 commerical recording of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince) Blu-ray Exclusive - The Restorarion of Citizen Kane
Shot in 1938 Too Much Johnson was Welles’ first feature the film that helped him hone his craft and led him to create to the masterpiece that is Citizen Kane. The footage was presumed destroyed in a fire in Welles’ home in 1971 but was recently rediscovered in Italy and the restored 66 mins version makes its UK DVD debut. Too Much Johnson is an elaborate 1890s farce of mistaken identity. Cuckolded husband Dathis (Edgar Barrier) is on the tale of a man named Billings (Joseph Cotten) who has been having an affair with Dathis’s wife (Arlene Francis). Billings flees by ship to Cuba where now also hiding from his own wife (Ruth Ford) and mother-in-law (Mary) he adopts the identity of a plantation owner named Johnson who is expecting a mail-order bride. Orson Welles plays a Keystone Kop.
Shot in 1938 Too Much Johnson was Welles’ first feature the film that helped him hone his craft and led him to create to the masterpiece that is Citizen Kane. The footage was presumed destroyed in a fire in Welles’ home in 1971 but was recently rediscovered in Italy and the restored 66 mins version makes its UK DVD debut. Too Much Johnson is an elaborate 1890s farce of mistaken identity. Cuckolded husband Dathis (Edgar Barrier) is on the tale of a man named Billings (Joseph Cotten) who has been having an affair with Dathis’s wife (Arlene Francis). Billings flees by ship to Cuba where now also hiding from his own wife (Ruth Ford) and mother-in-law (Mary) he adopts the identity of a plantation owner named Johnson who is expecting a mail-order bride. Orson Welles plays a Keystone Kop.
Mystery murder and passion from the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock! Screen legends Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten star in Under Capricorn a lush technicolor melodrama directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cotton plays Sam Flusky a native Briton banished to Australia for murder. Bergman is his wife Henrietta the disturbed sister of the man Flusky was convicted of killing. When a new governor arrives he brings with him his cousin Adare (Michael Wilding) an old fri
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