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The Complete Mr. Arkadin (The Criterion Collection) DVD

NR (Not Rated) :: Criterion :: Released: 2006-04-18

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The Complete Mr. Arkadin (The Criterion Collection) Summary Orson Welles’s Mr. Arkadin (a.k.a. Confidential Report) Is One Of Cinema’s Great Mysteries. How Did A Globetrotting Narrative Of Espionage, Amnesia, And Backstabbing Come To Be Itself Marked By These Qualities? In The Film, Small-time American Smuggler Guy Van Stratten Is Hired By Elusive Billionaire Gregory Arkadin To Investigate The Tycoon’s Past. What Follows Is A Dizzying Descent Into The Cold War Landscape Of A Europe Trying To Erase Its History. In Making The Film, Welles Was Ultimately Banned From The Editing Room By Producer Louis Dolivet. As A Result, Many Versions Exist, None Of Them Definitive. The Criterion Collection Is Proud To Collect The Many Faces Of Mr. Arkadin Into One Box For The First Time—from The Story’s Beginnings In Radio To The Novel Published Under Welles’s Name To An All-new "comprehensive Version" Of The Film.

Something of a remake of Citizen Kane, Orson Welles's 1955 Mr. Arkadin is a knowing and self-reflective variation on one of Welles's pet themes: the search for a defining secret of a powerful man. Welles plays an important financier who tries to discover his own past by hiring a man (Robert Arden) to research it. Did the seemingly haunted Arkadin simply forget who he is or where he's been? Or is he seeking his own Rosebud--a crucial, lost thing from his life that can serve (if identified) as a mythic key to former happiness? The film, a European coproduction, was made under the typically difficult and extended conditions Welles had to navigate after leaving Hollywood, and the bumpiness shows. But the entire project is really an act of Wellesian deconstruction--it's Welles making a film about the kind of film Orson Welles previously made--and that approach is more electrifying than one might imagine. The editing in this film, for instance, is not quite like in any of Welles's other works, with bursts of linear action literally disappearing between frames, as if the fabric of reality itself was vanishing. As far as the titan Arkadin is concerned, it might as well be. --Tom Keogh

Complete Mr. Arkadin (a.k.a.... DVD Techincal Details Cast: Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff
Director: Orson Welles
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Running Time: 93 mins
UPC: 037429207727
Binding: DVD
Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 2006-04-18
Region Code: 1
Specs: Box set, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 1.0),