Citizen Kane (1941)
Country: US
Technical: bw 119m
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane
Synopsis:
A man inherits a fortune, builds up a vast news empire and a castle full of art treasures, but dies longing for his lost childhood.
Review:
By most polls one of the best films ever made. For all sorts of reasons it was important: it was the apprentice work of a genius who never quite equalled its quality again; it used deep-focus photography and ceilinged sets consistently to evocative effect; it placed the vast paraphernalia of studio artifice at the service of a daring practical joke at the viewer's expense. It is still a witty and elegant work which repays repeated viewing without being especially endearing. The story of the W R Hearst background to the screenplay was expertly dramatized in a BBC film, RKO 281 (1999).
Country: US
Technical: bw 119m
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane
Synopsis:
A man inherits a fortune, builds up a vast news empire and a castle full of art treasures, but dies longing for his lost childhood.
Review:
By most polls one of the best films ever made. For all sorts of reasons it was important: it was the apprentice work of a genius who never quite equalled its quality again; it used deep-focus photography and ceilinged sets consistently to evocative effect; it placed the vast paraphernalia of studio artifice at the service of a daring practical joke at the viewer's expense. It is still a witty and elegant work which repays repeated viewing without being especially endearing. The story of the W R Hearst background to the screenplay was expertly dramatized in a BBC film, RKO 281 (1999).
Country: US
Technical: bw 119m
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane
Synopsis:
A man inherits a fortune, builds up a vast news empire and a castle full of art treasures, but dies longing for his lost childhood.
Review:
By most polls one of the best films ever made. For all sorts of reasons it was important: it was the apprentice work of a genius who never quite equalled its quality again; it used deep-focus photography and ceilinged sets consistently to evocative effect; it placed the vast paraphernalia of studio artifice at the service of a daring practical joke at the viewer's expense. It is still a witty and elegant work which repays repeated viewing without being especially endearing. The story of the W R Hearst background to the screenplay was expertly dramatized in a BBC film, RKO 281 (1999).