The Lost Print (2022)

The Magnificent Amberson - every cinephile worth their weight either owns a copy, or makes a date for a midnight screening every time it comes to their local movie house. What no one has, however, is a lost print of the film, regarded as genius by everyone who came in contact with it. As many already know, The Magnificent Ambersons was Orson Welles' follow up to his acclaimed masterpiece, Citizen Kane. A legend surrounds Ambersons, one that details the cutting of an original print by overzealous Hollywood studio producers. This "lost print" was Welles' preferred cut of the film, and he himself said, "it was a much better picture than Kane-if they'd just left it as it was." After finishing his director's cut of Ambersons, Welles traveled to Brazil to work on his next project, It's All True, a film depicting four separate stories of Latin and South American culture. As a result, Welles tasked editor Robert Wise with readying Ambersons for its theatrical release that spring.