‘Citizen Kane’ to Get 4K Ultra HD Release by Criterion Collection

BY SCOTTIE KNOLLIN

The Criterion Collection has announced it will release Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” on 4K Ultra HD as part of a six-film slate that also includes “Menace II Society,” “The Piano,” “Mulholland Dr.,” “The Red Shoes,” and “A Hard Day’s Night.” More film titles will be announced with the collection’s monthly announcements beginning in November 2021.

In its write-up regarding the 4K Ultra HD release, Criterion Collection said: “The most dazzling debut in cinema history, Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane was Criterion’s first laserdisc release 37 years ago. It now rejoins the library after a long absence, making its first appearance in 4K Ultra HD along with Allen and Albert Hughes’s riveting breakthrough Menace II Society; Jane Campion’s Academy Award–winning The Piano, starring Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in her breakout role; David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., a tale of love and jealousy in the city of dreams; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s singular Technicolor fantasia The Red Shoes; and Richard Lester’s timeless movie musical A Hard Day’s Night, which brought the Beatles’ revolutionary talent and irreverent humor to the big screen.”

Each film will be available in a 4K UHD+Blu-ray combo pack including a 4K UHD disc of the feature film, as well as the film and its special features on Blu-ray. Select films will be presented in Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos.

In 2020, “Citizen Kane” was named one of the Greatest Films of All Time by the North Dakota Film Society.