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Citizen Kane
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CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a...
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CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castle-like refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard Hughes and William Randolph Hearst--so much so that Hearst tried to have the film suppressed. Every aspect of the production marked an advance in film language: the deep focus and deeply shadowed cinematography (from Gregg Toland); the discontinuous narrative, relying heavily on flashbacks and newsreel footage (propelled by a script largely written by Herman L. Mankiewicz); the innovative use of sound and score (sound by Bailey Fesler and James G. Stewart, music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann); and the ensemble acting forged in the fires of Welles's Mercury Theatre (featuring the film debuts of, among others, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, and Agnes Moorehead). Every moment of the film, every shot...
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| Key Information | |
| Stars | Everett Sloane, Joseph Cotten |
| Actors | Agnes Moorehead, Alan Ladd, Arthur O'Connell, Benny Rubin, Charles Bennett, Dorothy Comingore, Edith Evanson, Edmund Cobb, Erskine Sanford, Fortunio Bonanova, George Coulouris, Georgia Backus, Gino Corrado, Gus Schilling, Harry Shannon, Herbert Corthell, Louise Currie, Milton Kibbee, Orson Welles, Paul Stewart, Ray Collins, Ruth Warrick, Walter Sande, William Alland |
| Available Formats | DVD: 2-Disc Set, DVD: Gold Edition Box Set; Includes RKO 281, VHS, VHS: 50th Anniversary Edition, VHS: REMASTERED, VHS: Spanish language version |
| Directors | Orson Welles |
| UPC | 053939520538, 053939520552, 053939562613, 053939609738, 053939638431, 053939656527, 053939656534, 053939664737, 082087109036, 086112050232, 663286201525 |
| Genre | Dramas |
| Subgenre | Recommended • Character Study • Politics • Reporters • Big Business • Achievers • Rags To Riches • Essential Cinema • Classic |
| MPAA Rating | PG (MPAA) |
| Release Date | 1941 |
| Running Time | 2hr 0min |
| Languages | |
| Original Language | English |
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| Credits | |
| Screenwriter | Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles |
| Professional Reviews | |
| Professional Reviews | (01/11/2002, p.26, Entertainment Weekly Staff): "...Packed with cool effects and a surprise ending unsurpassed even by THE SIXTH SENSE...", (05/01/2006, p.97, Andy Webster): "Eerily, it seems to predict the arc of Welles's career, one of great promise eventually betrayed or sold short. Time will never diminish the worth of this movie.", (05/24/1998, p.5, Roger Ebert): "...Its surface is as much fun as any movie ever made. Its depths surpass understanding....CITIZEN KANE is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound...", (07/23/1998, p.C18, Kevin Thomas): "...A tour de force of style and an ultimately tragic epic of a quintessentially American captain of industry, it is timelessly brilliant and incisive...", (08/01/2003, p.120, Neil Smith): "...KANE remains a source of fascination and inspiration...", (08/01/2003, p.69, Brad Stevens): "...[A] masterpiece....[The film] seems more relevant than ever...", (12/01/2003, p.5, Premiere Staff): "...It introduced a number of lively, nonlinear storytelling techniques..." |
| Quotes from the Movie | |
| Quotes from the Movie |
"Rosebud."--the dying word of Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) "I am, have been, and will always be only one thing--an American."--Kane "It'll probably turn out to be a very simple thing."--Mr. Rawlston (Philip Van Zandt), referring to Rosebud "I think it would be fun to run a newspaper!"--Walter Parks Thatcher (George Coulouris) "You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war."--Kane "I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in...sixty years."--Kane to Thatcher "I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all. But I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl."--Mr. Bernstein (Everett Sloane) to Jerry Thompson (William Alland) |
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