Mr. Arkadin (3-DVD, 3 Different Versions)
Discovering the past can be murder...
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 18, 2006
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Arden | |
Performer: | Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina, Paola Mori, Akim Tamiroff, Mischa Auer, Katina Paxinou & Jack Watling | |
Directed by | Orson Welles | |
Edited by | Renzo Lucidi | |
Composition by | Paul Misraki | |
Art Direction by | Orson Welles | |
Director of Photography: | Jean Bourgoin |
Entertainment Reviews:
This fractured Citizen Kane, built of frames within frames and mirrors within mirrors, is aptly brought to life by Welles's later style, born of low budgets and high anxiety, its grotesque closeups and cocked angles suggesting worlds and minds askew.
New Yorker
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Arkadin is a rotter from the start; we couldn't care less about his life or death.
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TV Guide
Engaging meller it may be, but missing the incisive delineation that marked Kane.
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Variety
Self-indulgent camp by a master of visual effects who lavishes them on a dime-novel story fabricated by himself; great comedown from Citizen Kane.
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Esquire Magazine
Arkadin was, according to one of his business rivals, "a phenomenon of an age of dissolution and crisis." The world of Mr. Arkadin aptly reflects such an age.
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Parallax View
Orson Welles's globe-trotting 1955 thriller is one of his most peculiar, and hence representative creations...
Premiere
A passionate and personal reflection about what power represents. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Product Description:
A dying man's final words send two people to Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), a mysterious and much-feared billionaire who lives on a Xanadu-like castle. In Welles's noirish MR. ARKADIN, Robert Arden stars as Guy Van Stratten, an adventurer and fortune hunter who is interested in Arkadin's money--and his daughter, Raina (Paolo Mori). Arkadin, overprotective of his daughter, has his "secretaries" prepare a damaging dossier on Van Stratten--entitled "Confidential Report." But Arkadin then makes a deal with Van Stratten--he will pay the young man for preparing a similar file on him, for Mr. Arkadin says he remembers nothing about his past and does not know where he came from. Even his name is a mystery. Van Stratten's search for the truth about Arkadin's past--which takes him throughout Europe and to Mexico and features encounters with a variety of fabulously colorful characters--is highly reminiscent of Thompson's search for Rosebud in CITIZEN KANE.
Shot in black and white, filled with elegant, cosmopolitan party scenes, and extraordinary close-ups, MR. ARKADIN is a visually stunning film. The camera angles and movement, the exotic sets, the playful music, and the quick cuts--as well as the extremely entertaining and metaphorical stories that Arkadin tells--all help make MR. ARKADIN a sublime treat.
Shot in black and white, filled with elegant, cosmopolitan party scenes, and extraordinary close-ups, MR. ARKADIN is a visually stunning film. The camera angles and movement, the exotic sets, the playful music, and the quick cuts--as well as the extremely entertaining and metaphorical stories that Arkadin tells--all help make MR. ARKADIN a sublime treat.
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Product Info
- UPC: 037429207727
- Shipping Weight: 1.42/lbs (approx)
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