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Apr 17, 2024 · Citizen Kane, American film drama, released in 1941, that was directed, produced, and cowritten by Orson Welles, who also starred in the lead role. Citizen Kane is acclaimed by many critics as the greatest movie ever made. As a landmark work in the history of cinema, it ranks among the few films ever produced for which a remake, in the opinion ...
Apr 25, 2015 · Citizen Kane and the meaning of Rosebud. 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...
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.
Jul 20, 2015 · 20 July 2015. Alamy. Still from Citizen Kane (Credit: Alamy) It has topped BBC Culture’s list of the greatest American films – and many other polls before. But what’s so good about Citizen...
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.
In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst–like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the definitive portrait of American megalomania, he also unleashed a torrent of stylistic innovations—from the jigsaw-puzzle narrative structure to the stunning deep-focus ...
Apr 30, 2021 · The Lasting Riddles of Orson Welles’ Revolutionary Film ‘Citizen Kane’. This year’s award-winning “Mank” attracts new attention to the 80-year-old American classic; two Smithsonian curators...
