Orson Welles
Charles Foster Kane
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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 ...
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 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...
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.
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...
Citizen Kane. In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie.
Citizen Kane. A psychological study of Charles Foster Kane, a powerful newspaper tycoon whose idealism was corrupted as he rose to enormous wealth and power. 3,413 IMDb 8.3 1 h 59 min 1941. X-Ray PG. Drama · Compelling · Dark · Emotional. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $3.99. Buy. HD $12.99. More purchase. options.
