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Buy the Citizen Kane Blu-ray
You haven't seen the Orson Welles classic until you've seen this newly restored version.
By Fred Kaplan
Updated Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, at 5:40 AM ET

Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane. Click image to expand.In September 2008, I wrote a Slate column urging all film-lovers to go buy a Blu-ray player so they could watch the new digital restorations of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II in a format that looked--in clarity, color, and detail--remarkably close to the original 35 mm prints.

If you didn't take my suggestion then, it's time to reconsider. This week, the American film classic, Citizen Kane, comes out on Blu-ray, and the difference between this disc and any other version you've seen--on TCM, at a repertory movie theater, or on the DVD released nine years ago--is stunning.

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Fred Kaplan, who writes Slate's "War Stories" column, also writes widely about culture. His latest book, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, is out in paperback. He can be reached at war_stories@hotmail.com.

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