Blu-ray
The magnificent Ambersons
Record details
- ISBN: 1681435241
- ISBN: 9781681435244
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Physical Description:
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (57 pages ; 18 cm)
videodisc - Edition: Blu-ray special edition.
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from title frame. Credits from booklet; most film credits are spoken aloud. Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942. Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; 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; video essay "The cinematographers" by Orson Welles scholar François Thomas; video essay "The score" by Bernard Herrmann scholar Christopher Husted; Director Orson Welles on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970; Segment from a 1925 silent film 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; and a booklet with an essays by authors and critics Molly Haskell, Luc Sante, Geoffrey O'Brien, Farran Smith Nehme, and Jonathan Lethem, and excerpts from an unfinished 1982 memoir by Welles. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director of photography, Stanley Cortez ; editor, Robert Wise ; original score, Bernard Herrmann. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator, Orson Welles ; cast, Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett. |
| Summary, etc.: | "Traces the rifts deepening within the Amberson clan--at the same time as the forces of progress begin to transform the city they once ruled. Though RKO excised over forty minutes of footage, now lost to history, and added an incongruously upbeat ending, The Magnificent Ambersons is an emotionally rich family saga and a masterful elegy for a bygone chapter of American life"--Container. |
| Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| System Details Note: | Blu-ray; region A; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; LPCM monaural. |
| Language Note: | In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
| Awards Note: | National Board of Review, USA, 1942: NBR Award in Best Acting (Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead). New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1942: NYFCC Award in Best Actress (Agnes Moorehead). National Film Preservation Board, USA 1991: National Film Registry. |
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| Subject: | Loss (Psychology) Drama Social change Drama Mothers and sons Drama Inheritance and succession Drama Children of the rich Drama Families Indiana Drama |
| Genre: | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Fiction films. Feature films. Film adaptations. Domestic drama (Motion pictures) |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Ansonia Public Library | B-DVD MAG (Text) | 34045125057757 | Adult DVD | Available | - |
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