If your aging VHS copy of Citizen Kane is nearing the end of its very long life, you don't have to be disappointed. According to THR, Warner Home Video is swooping in to the rescue with a Blu-Ray restoration of what is widely considered the best piece of American film making. If you are interested in it, you can rip this blu ray movie to your dvd by using a blu ray ripper.

Orson Welles' 'Citizen Kane' - still considered one of the greatest films ever made - will finally be released on Blu-ray this September. The masterpiece is fast approaching its 70th birthday and to commemorate the occasion. Janet Wilson, a Motion Picture Imaging colorist at WB working on the process said that the operation was "a painstaking, frame-by-frame" undertaking. With a 119-minute runtime, a little quick math tells us that over 171,000 frames needed to be restored. Holy mackerel!

The movie, frequently cited as the best American movie ever made and the movie chosen by the American Film Institute as the No. 1 film of all time, was co-written, directed and produced by then 25-year-old Orson Welles, who also starred in the pic, which told the life of a controversial publishing tycoon. It was nominated for nine Oscars and won for best original screenplay. Given that, more and more movie fans choose to copy blu ray movie to their gadgets such as ipod, iphone etc. If you are a mac user, you can also rip blu ray to your mac through the third program blu ray ripper for mac.

Besides this, the film, which tops the American Film Insititute's list of the greatest films of all time, among other accolades, tells the story of Charles Foster Kane, who spends a lifetime building a ruthless media empire hoping to reclaim the lost innocence of his youth. The film earned Welles the Oscar for Best Screenplay.

The new edition will all the extras from the DVD two-disc special edition, including the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane, and it will contain RKO 281, the Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning HBO docudrama movie that chronicled the clash between William Randolph Hearst and Hollywood and starred Liev Schrieber as Welles and James Cromwell as Hearst, whose life was the inspiration behind Kane and who tried to stop the movie from being made.
The 70th anniversary edition will also be released via iTunes, On Demand, VUDU and Amazon Instant Video.

In addition, Warner will release Citizen Kane with iTunes extras and on demand via cable and satellite providers, as well as for digital download through online retailers such as iTunes, Vudu and Amazon Instant Video.
TCM will air Citizen Kane Sunday, Sept. 18, at 8 p.m. to promote the Blu-ray release.

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