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Apr 17, 2024 · Sound. Lee Pfeiffer. Citizen Kane, American film drama, released in 1941, that was directed, produced, and cowritten by Orson Welles, who also starred in the lead role. A landmark work in the history of cinema, Citizen Kane is acclaimed by many critics as the greatest movie ever made.
Apr 25, 2015 · Citizen Kane has long been acclaimed as a work of genius and endlessly dissected by critics. But a mystery still lies at the heart of this masterpiece. On the eve of Orson Welles’s centenary,...
May 24, 1998 · “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.
Synopsis. In a mansion in Xanadu, a vast palatial estate in Florida, the elderly Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) is on his deathbed. Holding a snow globe, he utters a word, "Rosebud", and dies; the globe slips from his hand and smashes on the floor. A newsreel obituary tells the life story of Kane, an enormously wealthy newspaper publisher.
Apr 28, 1991 · "Citizen Kane" told the story of an aging press tycoon whose arrogance had alienated him from everyone who loved him, and who had died alone inside the vast gothic pile of his lonely castle in Florida.
The Complete “Citizen Kane” (1991), a rarely seen feature-length BBC documentary. New interviews with critic Farran Smith Nehme and film scholar Racquel J. Gates. Two video essays, by film scholar Robert L. Carringer and filmmakers David Cairns and Randall William Cook. New program by film scholars and effects experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt.
May 3, 2011 · 'Citizen Kane' at 70: The Legacy of the Film and Its Director. As the anniversary of the premiere approaches, a look at how the movie changed the industry—and what happened to Orson Welles in the...
