Citizen Kane

...Me and Orson Welles hitting cinemas next month, the big man's body of work is getting a timely run through at the Filmhouse. Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons have been and gone, but The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth, The Trial...

In this article: A Serious Man, Coen brothers, Richard Kind, Judaism, and Physics

...of oil wells, churches, wood cabins and vast mansions, Anderson's vision of America is at once awful and awe-inspiring. Like "Citizen Kane," "There Will Be Blood" deconstructs a single tragic soul, injecting his hubris directly into the...

In this article: David Lynch, There Will Be Blood, Alfonso Cuaron, Charlie Kaufman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Children of Men, Naomi Watts, Tim Burton, Amelie, and Mulholland Drive

...With Bashir" owes much to early pioneers like Ralph Bakshi, whose 1981 "American Pop" is considered by many to be the "Citizen Kane" of animation. The success or failure of the Beirut Animated festival could have implications for how young...

In this article: Beirut, Ralph Bakshi, Lebanon, YouTube, Los Angeles Times, and American Pop

...drama The Room, the story of a San Francisco banker whose girlfriend has an affair with his best friend, has been called "the Citizen Kane of bad movies" - and it lives up to the billing. The movie was filmed on an L.A. soundstage, with San...

In this article: Tommy Wiseau, Franz Schubert, Bela Bartok, Mike Stern, Interiors, and San Francisco

...it a cult cash cow, yielding almost $140m (EUR94m) over the past 30 years. Blade Runner, Bringing Up Baby, Night of the Hunter, Citizen Kane -- it took years for them to be given their due. As for Paranormal Activity, the underlying...

In this article: Blair Witch Project, Open Water, Steven Spielberg, Shawshank Redemption, Hollywood, and Ang Lee

...drawn by distinguished artists and written by people regarded as some of the best authors of our time. Comics had a "Citizen Kane" moment back in the 80s (two, actually, if you count "The Dark Knight Returns") when "Watchmen" hit the...

In this article: Graphic novels, Marvel, Krypton, Black Hole, The Dark Knight Returns, Action Comics, Daredevil, Oscar, Wikipedia, and Charles Burns

...create moral panic over the use of video games." In a review in The Guardian, Charlie Brooker said the game was "the 'Citizen Kane' of repeatedly shooting people in the face". "The storyline makes less sense than a gas ladder, but in...

In this article: The Guardian, Keith Vaz, HMV, House of Commons, Amazon, Charlie Brooker, and HMV

...point it was highly unusual for actors to direct or vice-versa, yet Welles was starring in, directing and writing Citizen Kane, and when the film was released on May 1, 1941, his multi-talented personality was a major selling point. He was a...

In this article: Orson Welles, Herman J Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, William Randolph Hearst, RKO, John Dillinger, Hollywood, and Macbeth

When The Room was released six years ago, it was labelled "the worst movie ever made", "the epitome of wretchedness" and even "the Citizen Kane of bad films." By Nick Allen in Los Angeles Published: 6:52PM GMT 01 Nov 2009 Wiseau, who...

In this article: The Room, Tommy Wiseau, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Alec Baldwin, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Entertainment Weekly, Tennessee Williams, and London

...finds our critic, but what it lacks in originality it makes up for in efficacy of delivery I'm not one of those critics who ranks Citizen Kane in his all-time Top Ten list, partly because its view of big business and the corrupting effect of...

In this article: William Randolph Hearst and Orson Welles