Citizen Kane: 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition Blu-ray
Amazon has finally listed one of cinema's enduring classics—Citizen Kane: 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition is now available for pre-order. This long-anticipated Blu-ray collection contains not only Citizen Kane and a wealth of related collectable materials but also director Orson Welles' long-unavailable follow-up film, The Magnificent Ambersons.
Warner Home Video has not released a specific list of special features yet, but judging from the promotional stills on Amazon, Citizen Kane promises a bounty, including a collector's book, replica documents and poster art stills, and four discs of digital material. These discs include Citizen Kane, the comprehensive two-hour documentary The Battle over Citizen Kane, HBO's original docudrama RKO 281 (starring Liev Schreiber as Orson Welles and James Cromwell as newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst), and Welles' sophomore effort, The Magnificent Ambersons. As of right now, none of these films are available separately—the 70th Anniversary bundle is the only way to own them all.
The only downsides are that The Magnificent Ambersons is the studio-mandated cut of the film (running 88 minutes) and that it will be on DVD only. No word on whether or not it will receive a Blu-ray upgrade—however, the fact that The Magnificent Ambersons is available on any digital format is cause for celebration.
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