{"product_id":"aba-blu-magnif017-cc296","title":"Magnificent Ambersons, The (BLU-RAY)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOrson Welles’s beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature—the subject of one of cinema’s greatest missing-footage tragedies—harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline of the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead, the film 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Magnificent Ambersons\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an emotionally rich family saga and a masterful elegy for a bygone chapter of American life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eSPECIAL FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-features-list\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo audio commentaries, featuring scholars Robert L. Carringer and James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interviews with film historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew video essay on the film’s cinematographers by scholar François Thomas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew video essays by scholars François Thomas and Christopher Husted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDirector Orson Welles on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dick Cavett Show\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 1970\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSegment from a 1925 silent adaptation of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Magnificent Ambersons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudio from a 1978 AFI symposium on Welles, and audio interviews with Welles conducted by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Mercury Theatre radio plays:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeventeen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Magnificent Ambersons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1939)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: An essay by critic Molly Haskell and (Blu-ray only) essays by authors and critics Lucy Sante, Geoffrey O’Brien, Farran Smith Nehme, and Jonathan Lethem, and excerpts from an unfinished 1982 memoir by Welles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Criterion Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41280950993096,"sku":"CC2967BD","price":49.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/products\/magnificentambersons.jpg?v=1642537567","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/aba-blu-magnif017-cc296","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}