Citizen Kane
Film
All's Welles and good...Marc Blitzstein's score -- that fully demonstrates the genius that Welles would eventually bring to bear on his screen masterpiece "Citizen Kane." "Me and Orson Welles," mostly filmed on London soundstages and an old theater on Britain's... In this article: Orson Welles, Me and Orson Welles, Julius Caesar, Saboteur, Zac Efron, John Houseman, Mercury Theatre, Charles Manson, and Citizen Kane |
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Village Voice | 1 day ago
Richard Linklater's Orson Welles Puts on Quite a Show
...how to play Welles-that his performance is clearly modeled on Welles's own as the young Charles Foster Kane actually enriches Citizen Kane in retrospect. Me and Orson Welles doesn't lack for vivid turns-including Danes's ambitious college...
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Centre Daily Times | 5 days ago
Me and Orson Welles'
...on the radio than the one his "The Shadow" scriptwriters wrote. He blurts out "I'm starving," just the way Welles did in "Citizen Kane," and charms charms charms. Equally fine are actors playing other members of Welles' Mercury...
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Times Online | October 29, 2009
Citizen Kane
...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 power and wealth is so conventional. Ultimately, it would have...
In this article: William Randolph Hearst and Orson Welles
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Independent.ie | November 06, 2009
So, who really did write 'citizen kane'?
...Mankiewicz's contribution. Pauline Kael wanted Herman Mankiewicz to be given due credit as one of the great creative forces of the 1930s and 1940s, and used the Holy Grail of Citizen Kane to make her case. Among those principally outraged...
In this article: Orson Welles, Herman J Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, William Randolph Hearst, RKO, John Dillinger, Hollywood, and Macbeth
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thestar.com | 3 days ago
Orson Welles on the up - and down
"He's such a broken man. He keeps asking `Why can't I get past Citizen Kane?' and his great despair is that `I want to make Chimes at Midnight and everyone wants to know what it's like to f--k Rita Hayworth.'" You can hear Ross's own...
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles. It was released by RKO Pictures.
The story is a roman à clef which criticizes the life and legacy of William Randolph Hearst, an American newspaper magnate, and Welles' own life. Upon its release, Hearst prohibited mention of the film in any of his newspapers. The film traces the life and career of Charles Foster Kane, a man whose career in the publishing world is born of idealistic social service, but gradually evolves into a ruthless pursuit of power. Narrated principally through flashbacks, the story is revealed through the research of a newspaper reporter seeking to solve the mystery of the newspaper magnate's dying word: "Rosebud."
There seems to be a semi-official consensus in film circles that Citizen Kane is the greatest film ever made, which has led Roger Ebert to quip that: ‘So it's settled: "Citizen Kane" is the official greatest film of all time.’ It topped both the AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies list and the 10th Anniversary Update, as well as all of the Sight & Sound polls of the 10 greatest films for nearly half a century.
- Name:
- Citizen Kane
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Directed By:
- Orson Welles
- Produced by:
- Orson Welles
- Written By:
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- Orson Welles
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
- Editor:
- Robert Wise
- Starring:
- Cinematography:
- Gregg Toland
- Music By:
- Bernard Herrmann
- Distributed By:
- RKO Pictures
- Length:
- 119 minutes
- Language:
- English
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