The Magnificent Ambersons (Criterion)
The Criterion Collection has announced that it will add The Magnificent Ambersons to their Blu-ray catalogue in November:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Two audio commentaries, featuring film scholars Robert Carringer and 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
- Welles on The Dick Cavett 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
- 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
https://www.criterion.com/films/28711-the-magnificent-ambersons