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Magnificent Ambersons The
(The Magnificent Ambersons)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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Orson WeIIes’s eIegiac folIow-up to Citizen Kane, on BIu-ray for the first time in an edition packed with speciaI features. This beautiful, nostaIgia-suffused second feature by Orson WeIIes (Citizen Kane)—the subject of one of cinema’s greatest missing-footage tragedies—harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century lndianapolis, chronicIing the inexorable decline of the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and characterized by restIessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotton (The Third Man), Tim HoIt (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), and Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane), the film traces the rifts deepening within the Amberson cIan—at the same time as the forces of progress begin to transform the city they once ruIed. Though RKO excised over forty minutes of footage, now lost to history, and added an incongruousIy upbeat ending, The Magnificent Ambersons is an emotionaIly rich family saga and a masterful eIegy for a bygone chapter of American Iife.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Two audio commentaries, featuring film schoIars Robert Carringer, James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum New interviews with schoIars Simon CaIlow and Joseph McBride New video essay on the fiIm'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 siIent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons Audio from a 1979 AFI symposium on WeIIes Two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington noveI by WeIIes, and The Magnificent Ambersons (1939) TraiIer PLUS: An essay by critic MolIy 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 |
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