--- product_id: 41265093 title: "Citizen Kane: 75th Anniversary (DVD)" price: "AED 50" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/41265093-citizen-kane-75th-anniversary-dvd store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # Citizen Kane: 75th Anniversary (DVD) **Price:** AED 50 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Citizen Kane: 75th Anniversary (DVD) - **How much does it cost?** AED 50 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/41265093-citizen-kane-75th-anniversary-dvd) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description 1940. Alone at his fantastic estate known as Xanadu, 70-year-old Charles Foster Kane dies, uttering only the single word Rosebud. So ends the odyssey of a life ... and begins a fabulous tale of the rise to wealth and power--and ultimate fall--of a complex man: A boy abandoned by his parents inherits a fortune, builds a global newspaper empire and aspires to become President of the United States, but he loses everything over an affair with an untalented nightclub singer. This fascinating story unfolds through the eyes of the people important to the tycoon--each showing a different aspect of Citizen Kane. Frequently regarded as the best American film ever made; winner of an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay; and nominated for an additional eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Review: This is it...the summit....the mountaintop......the ultimate.....and still greatest of all time......CITIZEN KANE. - This review is for the two disc set of Orson Welles 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane, which has endlessly (and rightfully) been called the greatest film ever made. Of course, I'm not going to go over the whole plot, which to film lovers is already gospel. This review is to concentrate on the technical and scholastic aspects of Kane, namely this two dvd set. And there are three very good reasons to get this particular copy of Kane. 1. The film itself, which has rarely looked better. It's a very crisp print, in which details obscured in earlier versions are now wonderfully clear. The soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann has never sounded better. Maybe the most overlooked great film soundtrack ever. All the technical wizardry at play in this film, from the lighting to the camera angles to the special effects (which, when pointed out, are absolutely astounding) seem to be just so much more breathtaking in this version. It's certainly as good as the movie can possibly look. 2. The audio commentary by the late, great Roger Ebert. (I'm guessing it was recorded in the late 90's/early 00's, before he lost the ability to speak.) Mr. Ebert stated on more than a few occasions that this was his favorite movie of all time. The commentary shows that at absolutely every turn. He's the perfect person to take you on a guided tour of the dark alleys, brightly-lit paths, strange regions and brilliant hidden corners that make this film so magnificent. I could never get tired of hearing him talk about how the deep focus camera work in Kane is so carefully and subtly handled. Or how the special effects are just as revolutionary as, say, Star Wars, without being noticed much, if at all. Or fascinating tidbits, such as how the actor who portrays the reporter, Thompson, is also the stentorian voice of the announcer in the opening News on the March segment. Most important of all, Mr. Ebert shows you how to appreciate this film, for all it's worth, like no one else can. Whether you end up loving the film and making it your cinematic lifeblood, or decide that it's too inflated, dark, slow paced, and maybe even overrated, is up to you. But you will understand why this film is considered perhaps the greatest film of all time. 3. The bonus documentary on the 2nd dvd, The Battle Over Citizen Kane, which was originally aired on PBS back in 1996 as part of the series American Experience. This nearly two hour doc is about how Welles clashed with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, the purported inspiration for Charles Foster Kane. How the film took Hearst's life, loves, and powerful ego and transformed them into the ultimate parable of business: you were happiest when you had nothing except what you loved most. How Hearst tried to suppress, and even destroy the film. How the career of Welles took off like Comet, and then burned out into wine commercials. How the film vanished from the public view for many years, only to reappear with the position in history it still holds today. This is one of the best documentaries ever made on movies, business, power, politics, Hollywood and celebrity. I'd say it's worth the price of admission, but when you get the greatest film ever to boot, well you can't go wrong. Also there are some other features of note, such as a second commentary by director Peter Bogdonovich. This one is interesting, but not as good as Mr. Ebert's. Since PB knew Welles and hung out with him a lot in later years, it's more of a bit chummy and anecdotal in nature. Plus there are also other extras such as the original trailer for the film, (don't pass it up, it's priceless) a photo gallery and a tiny bit of film of the world premiere. In all, it's the Kane 101 you will need in your film theory class (If you're into that sort of thing.) But with a movie as classic, timeless, groundbreaking, endlessly watchable and almost symphonic as this, you may never have to go to film school. -----------------PEACE BTW- Just for the record, my favorite bit of dialogue in Kane is: "You know Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in..............sixty years!" Review: Xanadu -- Fact or Fiction? Orson Welles' Magnum Opus!! - I got the two disc DVD set of Citizen Kane. The film was quite controversial of the time and RKO Pictures originally was not going to play it because of the pressure put to bear by William Randolph Hearst, famous newspaper magnate and philanthropist. Even to this day, the Hearst Corporation has its fingers in every pie: radio, television, cable, satellite broadcasting, etc. Hearst did not like that Orson was making what amounted to an unauthorized criticism on Hearst himself. Similarities? Oh yes! Although the names were changed, the film follows Hearst's life to a Tee, with a lot of creative license being taken. Orson Welles, only 24 years old, who, flushed from his success on the Mercury Theater and his famous (or infamous) broadcast, War of the Worlds, he created what many consider the best film of all time and many consider the beginning of the end of Orson's career as a radio, stage and film master of entertainment. [For those who do not know, on Halloween night back in the 1930s, with America concerned about Hitler's advances in Europe, Welles adapted H.G. Wells War of the Worlds with realistic-sounding newscasts and had the Martians invading Grover's Mill, New Jersey. Many people actually believed these broadcasts to be REAL and panicked! Radio was like TV is today, with soaps, westerns, news, and so on as main entertainment and so having your shows interrupted by newscasts and bulletins was common. This created major controversy and put Orson on the map!] But back to the review: Charles Foster Kane, as a child, is being taken away as the family can no longer have him. His mother is played stoically by Agnes Moorhead, a strong character actress in her own right (well before "Bewitched!" the cheesy sitcom of the Sixties.). Kane gets a newspaper, expands his empire, builds a castle (in Florida rather than San Simeon (current location of Hearst Castle), collects art as well as pretty girls, runs for office, confronts scandal and finally dies, dropping a snow globe and whispers "Rosebud." Why Rosebud? Well, the newspaper guys who are creating the news reel (News On The March!) want to know more about Kane and what Rosebud is. The film then goes through a lot of flashbacks and personal interviews with fictional (and thinly disguised) friends of Kane to find out more about the man, his mission and what was Rosebud. Was Kane a self-seeking vampire who sucked the spirit out of everyone he came in contact with? Or did his childhood memories still haunt him decades after the fact? Melodramatic to the extreme, some scenes were slow-paced. The black & white photography was simply gorgeous. And getting a peak at life as it might have been like in the early 20th Century was enjoyable and fascinating. Disc Two: Wow, this was great. Actual filmed interviews with Orson Welles done in the 1980s before his death. You can see his eyes light up as he recalled the creative energy he possessed as a very young man, creating plays in Harlem with an all Black cast in creating Shakespeare for the masses. Touched on are the Mercury Theater broadcasts for CBS and the War of the Worlds broadcast. The narrator said it best: Orson accomplished it all at a young age and then was burned and never came back after Citizen Kane. Extensive biographical data on Welles and Hearst, both driven men, both creative geniuses in their own ways, proud and gifted and heading on a collision course with each other. "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." -Orson Welles "Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive such a world is, in fact, an affirmation of the human spirit." Orson Welles "I started at the top and worked down." Orson Welles More on Orson Welles: Orson Welles: Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans More on War of the Worlds Broadcast: War of the Worlds: Featuring Orson Welles The Orson Welles' War of the Worlds Scandal More on Willam Randolph Hearst: Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B01LZHNDQC | | Actors | Agnes Moorehead, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Ruth Warrick | | Best Sellers Rank | #3,956 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #439 in Drama DVDs | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (5,005) | | Director | Orson Welles | | Dubbed: | English | | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No | | Item model number | 43298294 | | MPAA rating | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | Media Format | DVD | | Number of discs | 1 | | Producers | Orson Welles | | Product Dimensions | 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.6 ounces | | Release date | November 15, 2016 | | Run time | 1 hour and 59 minutes | | Studio | Warner Home Video | ## Product Details - **Format:** DVD - **Genre:** Drama, Drama/Love & Romance, Drama/Political Drama, Mystery & Suspense - **Language:** English - **Number Of Discs:** 1 ## Images ![Citizen Kane: 75th Anniversary (DVD) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91zcYtPPMOL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is it...the summit....the mountaintop......the ultimate.....and still greatest of all time......CITIZEN KANE. *by S***W on June 9, 2017* This review is for the two disc set of Orson Welles 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane, which has endlessly (and rightfully) been called the greatest film ever made. Of course, I'm not going to go over the whole plot, which to film lovers is already gospel. This review is to concentrate on the technical and scholastic aspects of Kane, namely this two dvd set. And there are three very good reasons to get this particular copy of Kane. 1. The film itself, which has rarely looked better. It's a very crisp print, in which details obscured in earlier versions are now wonderfully clear. The soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann has never sounded better. Maybe the most overlooked great film soundtrack ever. All the technical wizardry at play in this film, from the lighting to the camera angles to the special effects (which, when pointed out, are absolutely astounding) seem to be just so much more breathtaking in this version. It's certainly as good as the movie can possibly look. 2. The audio commentary by the late, great Roger Ebert. (I'm guessing it was recorded in the late 90's/early 00's, before he lost the ability to speak.) Mr. Ebert stated on more than a few occasions that this was his favorite movie of all time. The commentary shows that at absolutely every turn. He's the perfect person to take you on a guided tour of the dark alleys, brightly-lit paths, strange regions and brilliant hidden corners that make this film so magnificent. I could never get tired of hearing him talk about how the deep focus camera work in Kane is so carefully and subtly handled. Or how the special effects are just as revolutionary as, say, Star Wars, without being noticed much, if at all. Or fascinating tidbits, such as how the actor who portrays the reporter, Thompson, is also the stentorian voice of the announcer in the opening News on the March segment. Most important of all, Mr. Ebert shows you how to appreciate this film, for all it's worth, like no one else can. Whether you end up loving the film and making it your cinematic lifeblood, or decide that it's too inflated, dark, slow paced, and maybe even overrated, is up to you. But you will understand why this film is considered perhaps the greatest film of all time. 3. The bonus documentary on the 2nd dvd, The Battle Over Citizen Kane, which was originally aired on PBS back in 1996 as part of the series American Experience. This nearly two hour doc is about how Welles clashed with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, the purported inspiration for Charles Foster Kane. How the film took Hearst's life, loves, and powerful ego and transformed them into the ultimate parable of business: you were happiest when you had nothing except what you loved most. How Hearst tried to suppress, and even destroy the film. How the career of Welles took off like Comet, and then burned out into wine commercials. How the film vanished from the public view for many years, only to reappear with the position in history it still holds today. This is one of the best documentaries ever made on movies, business, power, politics, Hollywood and celebrity. I'd say it's worth the price of admission, but when you get the greatest film ever to boot, well you can't go wrong. Also there are some other features of note, such as a second commentary by director Peter Bogdonovich. This one is interesting, but not as good as Mr. Ebert's. Since PB knew Welles and hung out with him a lot in later years, it's more of a bit chummy and anecdotal in nature. Plus there are also other extras such as the original trailer for the film, (don't pass it up, it's priceless) a photo gallery and a tiny bit of film of the world premiere. In all, it's the Kane 101 you will need in your film theory class (If you're into that sort of thing.) But with a movie as classic, timeless, groundbreaking, endlessly watchable and almost symphonic as this, you may never have to go to film school. -----------------PEACE BTW- Just for the record, my favorite bit of dialogue in Kane is: "You know Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in..............sixty years!" ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Xanadu -- Fact or Fiction? Orson Welles' Magnum Opus!! *by C***R on January 1, 2010* I got the two disc DVD set of Citizen Kane. The film was quite controversial of the time and RKO Pictures originally was not going to play it because of the pressure put to bear by William Randolph Hearst, famous newspaper magnate and philanthropist. Even to this day, the Hearst Corporation has its fingers in every pie: radio, television, cable, satellite broadcasting, etc. Hearst did not like that Orson was making what amounted to an unauthorized criticism on Hearst himself. Similarities? Oh yes! Although the names were changed, the film follows Hearst's life to a Tee, with a lot of creative license being taken. Orson Welles, only 24 years old, who, flushed from his success on the Mercury Theater and his famous (or infamous) broadcast, War of the Worlds, he created what many consider the best film of all time and many consider the beginning of the end of Orson's career as a radio, stage and film master of entertainment. [For those who do not know, on Halloween night back in the 1930s, with America concerned about Hitler's advances in Europe, Welles adapted H.G. Wells War of the Worlds with realistic-sounding newscasts and had the Martians invading Grover's Mill, New Jersey. Many people actually believed these broadcasts to be REAL and panicked! Radio was like TV is today, with soaps, westerns, news, and so on as main entertainment and so having your shows interrupted by newscasts and bulletins was common. This created major controversy and put Orson on the map!] But back to the review: Charles Foster Kane, as a child, is being taken away as the family can no longer have him. His mother is played stoically by Agnes Moorhead, a strong character actress in her own right (well before "Bewitched!" the cheesy sitcom of the Sixties.). Kane gets a newspaper, expands his empire, builds a castle (in Florida rather than San Simeon (current location of Hearst Castle), collects art as well as pretty girls, runs for office, confronts scandal and finally dies, dropping a snow globe and whispers "Rosebud." Why Rosebud? Well, the newspaper guys who are creating the news reel (News On The March!) want to know more about Kane and what Rosebud is. The film then goes through a lot of flashbacks and personal interviews with fictional (and thinly disguised) friends of Kane to find out more about the man, his mission and what was Rosebud. Was Kane a self-seeking vampire who sucked the spirit out of everyone he came in contact with? Or did his childhood memories still haunt him decades after the fact? Melodramatic to the extreme, some scenes were slow-paced. The black & white photography was simply gorgeous. And getting a peak at life as it might have been like in the early 20th Century was enjoyable and fascinating. Disc Two: Wow, this was great. Actual filmed interviews with Orson Welles done in the 1980s before his death. You can see his eyes light up as he recalled the creative energy he possessed as a very young man, creating plays in Harlem with an all Black cast in creating Shakespeare for the masses. Touched on are the Mercury Theater broadcasts for CBS and the War of the Worlds broadcast. The narrator said it best: Orson accomplished it all at a young age and then was burned and never came back after Citizen Kane. Extensive biographical data on Welles and Hearst, both driven men, both creative geniuses in their own ways, proud and gifted and heading on a collision course with each other. "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." -Orson Welles "Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive such a world is, in fact, an affirmation of the human spirit." Orson Welles "I started at the top and worked down." Orson Welles More on Orson Welles: Orson Welles: Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans More on War of the Worlds Broadcast: War of the Worlds: Featuring Orson Welles The Orson Welles' War of the Worlds Scandal More on Willam Randolph Hearst: Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by E***I on September 7, 2015* Citizen Kane is one those films that, watching it after reading enthusiastic reviews saying it's the best film ever, you might not agree. Because Citizen Kane is a film whose main values are not so apparent and easy to get by everyone. It is a film for film fans and movie experts, but this does not mean is not a great, unique, magnificent film. It just means that you have to watch it both with an emotional and dramatic approach (that of normal viewers) and with a more careful focus on what a film is made of. And Citizen Kane is made of a powerful drama, structured in a modern and innovative way (an investigation where the puzzles never seem to be enough) dealing with universal and intimate questions (ambition and solitude, will of power vs need of love) as well as a sharp vision of power as based on (self)image and communication and all oriented to embrace and own the world, exactly like a baby does when he thinks that there is no boundaries between his will and the world around him. And it's a sociological and historical revolutionary pamphlet about American Society yet filled with fascination for its dark side and the mavericks, like Kane, who embody it. And last but not least, it is a film where the language not just back and support the story, but complete it and sometimes replace the classic narration through a supermodern visual language, like the fantastic sequence reassuming the whole story between Kane and his wife in few quick scenes all set in the same room and linked by camera pans and ellipsis. And Kane is also photographically evocative and impressive, is grand in its character, the lines of his dialogues and monologues, the impact of shots and scenes, the reckless representation of journalism and politics as well as the collusion between business and war. It is too much for a film but still you can find it cold, calculated, not engaging, like often Welles seems to be. But you can't ignore it and, if you do, you will not recognize it in all the films that came after, up to now, and not able to tell the copy from the original. Because a lots of things come from this film. This edition is the best available, it does not just present a fantastic blu ray transfer, but it is full of extras and has a great box and an interesting little book inside. ## Frequently Bought Together - Citizen Kane: 75th Anniversary (DVD) - 12 Angry Men (50th Anniversary Edition) with Special Features - To Kill a Mockingbird 60th Anniversary (DVD) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/41265093-citizen-kane-75th-anniversary-dvd](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/41265093-citizen-kane-75th-anniversary-dvd) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-05-13*