{"id":14428,"date":"2011-06-13T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T02:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=14428"},"modified":"2018-11-08T23:47:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T04:47:23","slug":"citizen-kane-coming-to-blu-ray-assorted-streaming-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/13\/citizen-kane-coming-to-blu-ray-assorted-streaming-options\/","title":{"rendered":"CITIZEN KANE Coming To Blu-Ray, Assorted Streaming Options"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Citizen Kane<\/strong>, which has rightly been called one of the greatest American films, will be coming to blu-ray disc and various online streaming options this fall. Starting on September 13 you’ll be able to own director\/star Orson Welles’ masterpiece in high-def. The film will also be available soon after via iTunes, On Demand, VUDU and Amazon Instant Video.<\/p>\n

Released 70 years ago, Welles film told of the glorious rise and ignoble fall of a publishing tycoon, a thinly-veiled swipe at newspaper magnate William Randolp Hurst. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won for Best Original Screenplay.<\/p>\n

According to the Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, the film will be undergoing a frame-by-frame high-definition 4K restoration from the original nitrate negative. The studio is touting this as the best looking release of the film ever, which is saying something as I think the DVD version is pretty damn near perfect.<\/p>\n

If you have the original DVD, all of its extras – including the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane<\/strong> and the two fantastic commentary tracks from Roger Ebert and Peter Bogdanovich – will be ported over to this new release. Additionally, the blu-ray will contain RKO 281<\/strong>, the docudrama about the making of the film starring Liev Schrieber and James Cromwell, a 48-page book, part of which will be a 20-page reproduction of the original 1941 souvenir program, lobby cards plus facsimiles of memos and correspondence made during the movie’s production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the greatest American films is getting a 4k high-def restoration.<\/div>\n

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