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>