Along with the personal story is the history of a period. "Citizen Kane" covers the rise of the penny press (here Joseph Pulitzer is the model), the Hearst-supported Spanish-American War, the birth of radio, the power of political machines, the rise of fascism, the growth of celebrity journalism. A newsreel subtitle reads: "1895 to 1941.
Citizen Kane
Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/23/24 Full Review Will R Citizen Kane is the greatest film ever made. The template for the perfect movie was established by this film. Everything ...
'Citizen Kane' a masterpiece at 50
But the legend of "Citizen Kane" lives on. It is routinely voted the greatest film of all time, most notably in the international polls by the British film magazine Sight & Sound in 1962, 1972 and 1982. And this spring a bright, sparkling new restored print of "Citizen Kane" will play in 50th anniversary engagements all over the country.
'Citizen Kane': Film Review
'Citizen Kane' is a triumph for Orson Welles, who overnight, so to speak, joins the top ranks of boxoffice film personalities. Flin. 1941: Best Original Screenplay.
A Viewer's Companion to 'Citizen Kane'
As the camera swoops above the night club and through the skylight to discover Susan Alexander Kane sitting forlornly at a table, it goes from a model of the nightclub roof to a real set. The switch is concealed, the first time, by a lightning flash. The second time we go to the nightclub, it's done with a dissolve.
Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane is a film with epic characteristics, and was at least 30 years ahead of his time, let's start by spectacular Gregg Toland photography, which for me is one of the top 5 best film photography, all the camera angles, metaphors, editing, close-ups, the use of natural and artificial light, mounts scenarios are something inexplicable (Remember Kane's speech), J. Mankiewicz script is ...
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles.Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the screenplay. The picture was Welles's first feature film.. Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. For 40 years (5 decennial polls: 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992, 2002), it stood at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound ...
"Citizen Kane," Reviewed
April 26, 1941. Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, and Everett Sloane in "Citizen Kane," 1941. Photograph courtesy Everett. The noise and the nonsense that have attended the release of "Citizen ...
Citizen Kane Movie Review
Leading characters are drunk in two sequences. Sev. Parents need to know that Citizen Kane is a serious, grown-up film that will have little appeal for young kids. For teens (and any older kids who shows a budding interest in the art of movie-making), however, it is the must-see portrait of an early 20th century media tycoon.
Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane: Directed by Orson Welles. With Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick. Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Citizen Kane Review :: Criterion Forum
Picture 8/10. Making its way back into The Criterion Collection 37-years after being the label's first title on LaserDisc, Orson Welles' influential debut Citizen Kane is presented here in a new Blu-ray edition (as spine 1104), sourced from a brand-new 4K restoration performed by Criterion and Warner Bros., scanned primarily from a 35mm nitrate composite fine-grain master made directly ...
Citizen Kane Review
A critical canon was established with Kane firmly placed in the top spot. The film was named the best ever made in Sight & Sounds 1962 poll, a position it has held with stubbornness ever since ...
Citizen Kane
Well, some five years after I started writing reviews, the opportunity arose at a small film festival. This review is the result of that screening. Citizen Kane has been lauded as the greatest motion picture to come out of America during the black-and-white era (or any era, for that matter). It also represents the pinnacle of Orson Welles' film ...
Why Is 'Citizen Kane' the Great Movie Ever Made?
For Andre Bazin, who would go on to co-found Cahiers du Cinema in 1951 and become the spiritual father of the New Wave, Kane represented, in Welles and Toland's use of deep focus and long takes ...
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane Reviews. 100 Metascore. 1941. 1 hr 59 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. Where to Watch. After a multimillionaire newspaper magnate utters the mysterious name "Rosebud" on his deathbed ...
Movie Review: Citizen Kane
For this review, I screened Citizen Kane via my HBO Max subscription. The transfer looks absolutely stunning. A note: beware, below there be spoilers aplenty. But, ... juxtaposed mere seconds apart within the movie's screen-time. Citizen Kane is the story of a very rich, very powerful man and the reflections about him, in the wake of this ...
Why Citizen Kane is Considered to be the Best Film of All Time
Citizen Kane, legendary director Orson Welles' debut film, and arguably his magnum opus as well, premiered in theaters all the way back in the year 1942.Very loosely based on real life newspaper ...
Citizen Kane (1941)
The fresh, sophisticated, and classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world's most famous and highly-rated film, with its many remarkable scenes and performances, cinematic and narrative techniques and experimental innovations (in photography, editing, and sound). Its director, star, and producer were all the same genius individual - Orson Welles (in his film debut at age 25 ...
Why Citizen Kane Is Called The Greatest Movie Ever Made
For many critics and film fans, Citizen Kane can lay claim to the title of the greatest movie ever made precisely because, even if only in the form of in-camera effects and a wealthy, lonely anti-villain, Welles' movie even influenced the direction of Rotten Tomatoes' highest-rated movie, 2017's Paddington 2 . Pontypool: How War Of The ...
TIL that 1941 movie Citizen Kane had a perfect score on Rotten ...
In all fairness this was a review from 1941 when a consensus would be impossible to be drawn so a contrarian would never know they were being contrarian. Citizen Kane was not a crowd-pleaser back in the day. There was also some politics behind the reviews: Citizen Kane was meant to be a criticism of William Randolph Hearst and the Hearst Media ...
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rated. Unrated. Runtime. 119 min. Release Date. 05/01/1941. Just as the newspapermen in Citizen Kane set out in vain to find "an angle" on which they can evaluate the subject of Charles Foster Kane's death, approaching Orson Welles' motion picture today might be equally futile. The film has been endlessly explored and investigated ...
The 10 Best Scenes In Citizen Kane, Ranked
Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane remains a landmark in the history of cinema over 80 years later, and its best scenes continue to influence filmmakers today. The quasi-biopic charts the life and death of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, a character based partially on real-life American business tycoon William Randolph Hearst.
Movie Review: Citizen Kane
The movie is also significant in how it can be relatable to our society and us as Americans. Orson Welles was also a brilliant person. Before his work in Citizen Kane, Welles became well-known for his narration of H.G Wells's The War Of The Worlds, which debuted on October 30, 1938, four years before Welles co-wrote, and directed Citizen Kane.
20 facts you might not know about 'Citizen Kane'
Herrmann made his movie debut in "Citizen Kane," although interestingly he won an Oscar for another 1941 film, "All That Money Can Buy." However, he's best known for his work with Alfred ...
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Along with the personal story is the history of a period. "Citizen Kane" covers the rise of the penny press (here Joseph Pulitzer is the model), the Hearst-supported Spanish-American War, the birth of radio, the power of political machines, the rise of fascism, the growth of celebrity journalism. A newsreel subtitle reads: "1895 to 1941.
Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/23/24 Full Review Will R Citizen Kane is the greatest film ever made. The template for the perfect movie was established by this film. Everything ...
But the legend of "Citizen Kane" lives on. It is routinely voted the greatest film of all time, most notably in the international polls by the British film magazine Sight & Sound in 1962, 1972 and 1982. And this spring a bright, sparkling new restored print of "Citizen Kane" will play in 50th anniversary engagements all over the country.
'Citizen Kane' is a triumph for Orson Welles, who overnight, so to speak, joins the top ranks of boxoffice film personalities. Flin. 1941: Best Original Screenplay.
As the camera swoops above the night club and through the skylight to discover Susan Alexander Kane sitting forlornly at a table, it goes from a model of the nightclub roof to a real set. The switch is concealed, the first time, by a lightning flash. The second time we go to the nightclub, it's done with a dissolve.
Citizen Kane is a film with epic characteristics, and was at least 30 years ahead of his time, let's start by spectacular Gregg Toland photography, which for me is one of the top 5 best film photography, all the camera angles, metaphors, editing, close-ups, the use of natural and artificial light, mounts scenarios are something inexplicable (Remember Kane's speech), J. Mankiewicz script is ...
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles.Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the screenplay. The picture was Welles's first feature film.. Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. For 40 years (5 decennial polls: 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992, 2002), it stood at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound ...
April 26, 1941. Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, and Everett Sloane in "Citizen Kane," 1941. Photograph courtesy Everett. The noise and the nonsense that have attended the release of "Citizen ...
Leading characters are drunk in two sequences. Sev. Parents need to know that Citizen Kane is a serious, grown-up film that will have little appeal for young kids. For teens (and any older kids who shows a budding interest in the art of movie-making), however, it is the must-see portrait of an early 20th century media tycoon.
Citizen Kane: Directed by Orson Welles. With Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick. Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Picture 8/10. Making its way back into The Criterion Collection 37-years after being the label's first title on LaserDisc, Orson Welles' influential debut Citizen Kane is presented here in a new Blu-ray edition (as spine 1104), sourced from a brand-new 4K restoration performed by Criterion and Warner Bros., scanned primarily from a 35mm nitrate composite fine-grain master made directly ...
A critical canon was established with Kane firmly placed in the top spot. The film was named the best ever made in Sight & Sounds 1962 poll, a position it has held with stubbornness ever since ...
Well, some five years after I started writing reviews, the opportunity arose at a small film festival. This review is the result of that screening. Citizen Kane has been lauded as the greatest motion picture to come out of America during the black-and-white era (or any era, for that matter). It also represents the pinnacle of Orson Welles' film ...
For Andre Bazin, who would go on to co-found Cahiers du Cinema in 1951 and become the spiritual father of the New Wave, Kane represented, in Welles and Toland's use of deep focus and long takes ...
Citizen Kane Reviews. 100 Metascore. 1941. 1 hr 59 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. Where to Watch. After a multimillionaire newspaper magnate utters the mysterious name "Rosebud" on his deathbed ...
For this review, I screened Citizen Kane via my HBO Max subscription. The transfer looks absolutely stunning. A note: beware, below there be spoilers aplenty. But, ... juxtaposed mere seconds apart within the movie's screen-time. Citizen Kane is the story of a very rich, very powerful man and the reflections about him, in the wake of this ...
Citizen Kane, legendary director Orson Welles' debut film, and arguably his magnum opus as well, premiered in theaters all the way back in the year 1942.Very loosely based on real life newspaper ...
The fresh, sophisticated, and classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world's most famous and highly-rated film, with its many remarkable scenes and performances, cinematic and narrative techniques and experimental innovations (in photography, editing, and sound). Its director, star, and producer were all the same genius individual - Orson Welles (in his film debut at age 25 ...
For many critics and film fans, Citizen Kane can lay claim to the title of the greatest movie ever made precisely because, even if only in the form of in-camera effects and a wealthy, lonely anti-villain, Welles' movie even influenced the direction of Rotten Tomatoes' highest-rated movie, 2017's Paddington 2 . Pontypool: How War Of The ...
In all fairness this was a review from 1941 when a consensus would be impossible to be drawn so a contrarian would never know they were being contrarian. Citizen Kane was not a crowd-pleaser back in the day. There was also some politics behind the reviews: Citizen Kane was meant to be a criticism of William Randolph Hearst and the Hearst Media ...
Rated. Unrated. Runtime. 119 min. Release Date. 05/01/1941. Just as the newspapermen in Citizen Kane set out in vain to find "an angle" on which they can evaluate the subject of Charles Foster Kane's death, approaching Orson Welles' motion picture today might be equally futile. The film has been endlessly explored and investigated ...
Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane remains a landmark in the history of cinema over 80 years later, and its best scenes continue to influence filmmakers today. The quasi-biopic charts the life and death of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, a character based partially on real-life American business tycoon William Randolph Hearst.
The movie is also significant in how it can be relatable to our society and us as Americans. Orson Welles was also a brilliant person. Before his work in Citizen Kane, Welles became well-known for his narration of H.G Wells's The War Of The Worlds, which debuted on October 30, 1938, four years before Welles co-wrote, and directed Citizen Kane.
Herrmann made his movie debut in "Citizen Kane," although interestingly he won an Oscar for another 1941 film, "All That Money Can Buy." However, he's best known for his work with Alfred ...