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# Citizen Kane: 75th Anniversary (DVD)

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1940. Alone at his fantastic estate known as Xanadu, 70-year-old Charles Foster Kane dies, uttering only the single word Rosebud. So ends the odyssey of a life ... and begins a fabulous tale of the rise to wealth and power--and ultimate fall--of a complex man: A boy abandoned by his parents inherits a fortune, builds a global newspaper empire and aspires to become President of the United States, but he loses everything over an affair with an untalented nightclub singer. This fascinating story unfolds through the eyes of the people important to the tycoon--each showing a different aspect of Citizen Kane. Frequently regarded as the best American film ever made; winner of an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay; and nominated for an additional eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor.

Review: Xanadu -- Fact or Fiction? Orson Welles' Magnum Opus!! - I got the two disc DVD set of Citizen Kane. The film was quite controversial of the time and RKO Pictures originally was not going to play it because of the pressure put to bear by William Randolph Hearst, famous newspaper magnate and philanthropist. Even to this day, the Hearst Corporation has its fingers in every pie: radio, television, cable, satellite broadcasting, etc. Hearst did not like that Orson was making what amounted to an unauthorized criticism on Hearst himself. Similarities? Oh yes! Although the names were changed, the film follows Hearst's life to a Tee, with a lot of creative license being taken. Orson Welles, only 24 years old, who, flushed from his success on the Mercury Theater and his famous (or infamous) broadcast, War of the Worlds, he created what many consider the best film of all time and many consider the beginning of the end of Orson's career as a radio, stage and film master of entertainment. [For those who do not know, on Halloween night back in the 1930s, with America concerned about Hitler's advances in Europe, Welles adapted H.G. Wells War of the Worlds with realistic-sounding newscasts and had the Martians invading Grover's Mill, New Jersey. Many people actually believed these broadcasts to be REAL and panicked! Radio was like TV is today, with soaps, westerns, news, and so on as main entertainment and so having your shows interrupted by newscasts and bulletins was common. This created major controversy and put Orson on the map!] But back to the review: Charles Foster Kane, as a child, is being taken away as the family can no longer have him. His mother is played stoically by Agnes Moorhead, a strong character actress in her own right (well before "Bewitched!" the cheesy sitcom of the Sixties.). Kane gets a newspaper, expands his empire, builds a castle (in Florida rather than San Simeon (current location of Hearst Castle), collects art as well as pretty girls, runs for office, confronts scandal and finally dies, dropping a snow globe and whispers "Rosebud." Why Rosebud? Well, the newspaper guys who are creating the news reel (News On The March!) want to know more about Kane and what Rosebud is. The film then goes through a lot of flashbacks and personal interviews with fictional (and thinly disguised) friends of Kane to find out more about the man, his mission and what was Rosebud. Was Kane a self-seeking vampire who sucked the spirit out of everyone he came in contact with? Or did his childhood memories still haunt him decades after the fact? Melodramatic to the extreme, some scenes were slow-paced. The black & white photography was simply gorgeous. And getting a peak at life as it might have been like in the early 20th Century was enjoyable and fascinating. Disc Two: Wow, this was great. Actual filmed interviews with Orson Welles done in the 1980s before his death. You can see his eyes light up as he recalled the creative energy he possessed as a very young man, creating plays in Harlem with an all Black cast in creating Shakespeare for the masses. Touched on are the Mercury Theater broadcasts for CBS and the War of the Worlds broadcast. The narrator said it best: Orson accomplished it all at a young age and then was burned and never came back after Citizen Kane. Extensive biographical data on Welles and Hearst, both driven men, both creative geniuses in their own ways, proud and gifted and heading on a collision course with each other. "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." -Orson Welles "Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive such a world is, in fact, an affirmation of the human spirit." Orson Welles "I started at the top and worked down." Orson Welles More on Orson Welles: Orson Welles: Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans More on War of the Worlds Broadcast: War of the Worlds: Featuring Orson Welles The Orson Welles' War of the Worlds Scandal More on Willam Randolph Hearst: Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
Review: Beautiful Classic - Beautiful classic that discusses everything from childhood trauma to living in a self made prison. Great movie!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Contributor | Agnes Moorehead, Buddy Swan, Dorothy Comingore, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, Fortunio Bonanova, George Coulouris, Georgia Backus, Gus Schilling, Harry Shannon, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Paul Stewart, Philip Van Zandt, Ray Collins, Ruth Warrick, Sonny Bupp, William Alland Contributor Agnes Moorehead, Buddy Swan, Dorothy Comingore, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, Fortunio Bonanova, George Coulouris, Georgia Backus, Gus Schilling, Harry Shannon, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Paul Stewart, Philip Van Zandt, Ray Collins, Ruth Warrick, Sonny Bupp, William Alland See more |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 5,187 Reviews |
| Format | DVD, NTSC |
| Genre | Drama, Drama/Love & Romance, Drama/Political Drama, Mystery & Suspense |
| Language | English |
| Number Of Discs | 1 |

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Drama, Drama/Love & Romance, Drama/Political Drama, Mystery & Suspense
- **Format:** DVD, NTSC
- **Contributor:** Agnes Moorehead, Buddy Swan, Dorothy Comingore, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, Fortunio Bonanova, George Coulouris, Georgia Backus, Gus Schilling, Harry Shannon, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Paul Stewart, Philip Van Zandt, Ray Collins, Ruth Warrick, Sonny Bupp, William Alland
- **Language:** English
- **Number Of Discs:** 1

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Xanadu -- Fact or Fiction? Orson Welles' Magnum Opus!!
*by C***R on January 1, 2010*

I got the two disc DVD set of Citizen Kane. The film was quite controversial of the time and RKO Pictures originally was not going to play it because of the pressure put to bear by William Randolph Hearst, famous newspaper magnate and philanthropist. Even to this day, the Hearst Corporation has its fingers in every pie: radio, television, cable, satellite broadcasting, etc. Hearst did not like that Orson was making what amounted to an unauthorized criticism on Hearst himself. Similarities? Oh yes! Although the names were changed, the film follows Hearst's life to a Tee, with a lot of creative license being taken. Orson Welles, only 24 years old, who, flushed from his success on the Mercury Theater and his famous (or infamous) broadcast, War of the Worlds, he created what many consider the best film of all time and many consider the beginning of the end of Orson's career as a radio, stage and film master of entertainment. [For those who do not know, on Halloween night back in the 1930s, with America concerned about Hitler's advances in Europe, Welles adapted H.G. Wells War of the Worlds with realistic-sounding newscasts and had the Martians invading Grover's Mill, New Jersey. Many people actually believed these broadcasts to be REAL and panicked! Radio was like TV is today, with soaps, westerns, news, and so on as main entertainment and so having your shows interrupted by newscasts and bulletins was common. This created major controversy and put Orson on the map!] But back to the review: Charles Foster Kane, as a child, is being taken away as the family can no longer have him. His mother is played stoically by Agnes Moorhead, a strong character actress in her own right (well before "Bewitched!" the cheesy sitcom of the Sixties.). Kane gets a newspaper, expands his empire, builds a castle (in Florida rather than San Simeon (current location of Hearst Castle), collects art as well as pretty girls, runs for office, confronts scandal and finally dies, dropping a snow globe and whispers "Rosebud." Why Rosebud? Well, the newspaper guys who are creating the news reel (News On The March!) want to know more about Kane and what Rosebud is. The film then goes through a lot of flashbacks and personal interviews with fictional (and thinly disguised) friends of Kane to find out more about the man, his mission and what was Rosebud. Was Kane a self-seeking vampire who sucked the spirit out of everyone he came in contact with? Or did his childhood memories still haunt him decades after the fact? Melodramatic to the extreme, some scenes were slow-paced. The black & white photography was simply gorgeous. And getting a peak at life as it might have been like in the early 20th Century was enjoyable and fascinating. Disc Two: Wow, this was great. Actual filmed interviews with Orson Welles done in the 1980s before his death. You can see his eyes light up as he recalled the creative energy he possessed as a very young man, creating plays in Harlem with an all Black cast in creating Shakespeare for the masses. Touched on are the Mercury Theater broadcasts for CBS and the War of the Worlds broadcast. The narrator said it best: Orson accomplished it all at a young age and then was burned and never came back after Citizen Kane. Extensive biographical data on Welles and Hearst, both driven men, both creative geniuses in their own ways, proud and gifted and heading on a collision course with each other. "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." -Orson Welles "Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive such a world is, in fact, an affirmation of the human spirit." Orson Welles "I started at the top and worked down." Orson Welles More on Orson Welles: Orson Welles: Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans More on War of the Worlds Broadcast: War of the Worlds: Featuring Orson Welles The Orson Welles' War of the Worlds Scandal More on Willam Randolph Hearst: Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful Classic
*by S***L on January 10, 2026*

Beautiful classic that discusses everything from childhood trauma to living in a self made prison. Great movie!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ KANE is great...but Thompson is a moron!!!
*by R***I on February 11, 2008*

Yes, great film...perhaps the greatest for myriad reasons many of us know and those who do not should excitedly discover on their own. But has anyone ever commented until now that in addition to being an examination of the title character, CITIZEN KANE contains a devastating, damning commentary on the basic idiocy of most "investigative" reporters - in this case the "truth"-seeking Thompson. But was it intentional - or a script oversight - that when Raymond the Butler is giving his two cents worth (in his case actually a thousand bucks worth!) to the meaning of Rosebud.....Thompson - a basic idiot-in-the-shadows (is this then why he is always in shadows? To show he is the man-in-the-dark...the man who cannot see what is before him? Who can't even do his job well!) - when Thompson is told by Raymond that Kane utters the word "Rosebud" both when Susan left him and he pocketed "something" and "that other time" when he dropped the glass ball - yet Thompson does NOT even ask what the hell the glass ball was! If he had known it was of a snow scene he might have had the wits to trace it back to young Kane's winter of discontent when the bank seized hold of him and stole him from his beloved sleigh. How dumb could one get? (Perhaps as dumb as many investigative reporters are who fail to deliver the goods or come up with erroneous nonsense that they pass off as truth - or WMDs?) Anyway - I will forever wonder if Thompson's not picking up the "ball"(in this case albeit a glass, smashed one) was intentional by the makers of KANE or was Thompson just tired at the end of the day or was this a script glitch? Also not mentioned - to my knowledge - is the preponderance of fireplaces in the film...leading up to the end one which consumes the secret for all time. (Notice the fireplace directly behind the young Kane when he is given a new sleigh by Thatcher - portent of things to come.) One other thing that I have never seen mentioned in commentaries of the film is this: the great Kane-as-a-boy snow scene....the snowman....it is a forecast of the endless statues that the elder Kane will collect; plus...it somewhat looks like the bald-domed, fatter Kane when we last see him: in the Colorado scene we thereby have child and future man, together. The fact that a snowman is frozen- as Kane is emotionally frozen (especially at the end of the film after Susan leaves) is another point to be considered. So when we first see the dying Kane he God-like holds his past world in his hand, yet being a limited human being afterall (despite Kane's seeming unlimitness of power and money, etc) he cannot enter the scene in the ball...just like he cannot return to that moment in Time. Conversely, when we first see Kane as a boy, he is in the world of the glass ball - but that world is also about to be shattered by the adults who plot his future within the confines of the warm boarding house. It is then - from this interior - that we see child Kane framed...as he is also about to be "framed" for a crime he did not commit and sentenced to a life of wealth and riches he never asked for - or may have ever even wanted. In both cases, however, the dying Kane at the film's opening and the first time we see K as a child - in both instances, he is....alone. Existentially alone in a frozen world that only the human heart and hearthside can warm. One last thing to anyone familiar with the music of Rachmaninoff: listen to his magnificent tone poem "Isle of the Dead" and you will hear what is essentially the Kane motif throughout it. I absolutely love the music of Bernard Herrmann but cannot help thinking he was influenced - however subconsciously - by Rachmaninoff's piece. Even the painting that Rachmaninoff based his tone poem on is reminiscent of Xanadu, somewhat. Anyway - CITIZEN KANE is the ultimate film about ALL of us....not just powerful, multimillionaire publishers....but ALL of us...because we ALL have a "Rosebud" in our souls and minds that will be on our lips when the curtain closes. "Rosebud" is, in its most basic form, the desire we all share to....start again, conquer Time, turn back the clock and NOT have die and end our dreams or our bodies. This is what ultimately makes KANE....a CITIZEN.

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