The Magnificent Ambersons 🔗 📀 🎥 🍿
Finally! A Blu-ray release from Criterion of a 4K digital restoration. Lots of extras too.
SPECIAL FEATURES- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray - Two audio commentaries, featuring scholars Robert L. Carringer and James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum - New interviews with film historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride - New video essay on the film’s cinematographers by scholar François Thomas - New video essays by scholars François Thomas and Christopher Husted - Director Orson Welles on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970 - Segment from a 1925 silent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons - Audio from a 1978 AFI symposium on Welles, and audio interviews with Welles conducted by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich - 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 (Blu-ray only) 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</blockquote>