The Magnificent Ambersons

 

Year: 1942

Time: 88 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 952

Release Date: Tuesday, 20 November 2018

MSRP: $39.95

 

Blu-ray

1 Disc

1.37:1

English PCM Stereo 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 Audio commentary by film scholar Robert Carringer   Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum   New interviews with scholars Simon Callow and Joseph McBride   New video essay on the film’s cinematographers by scholar François Thomas   New video essay on the film’s score by scholar Christopher Husted   Orson Welles on The Dick Cavett Show Show in 1970   Segment from Pampered Youth, a 1925 silent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons   Audio from a 1979 AFI symposium on Welles   Two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The Magnificent Ambersons (1939)   Trailer   Booklet featuring essays by authors and critics Molly Haskell, Lucy Sante, Geoffrey O'Brien, Farran Smith Nehme, and Jonathan Lethem, and excerpts from an unfinished 1982 memoir by Orson Welles