Citizen Kane
Time Out says
The source book of Orson Welles, and still a marvellous movie. Thematically less resonant than some of Welles' later meditations on the nature of power, perhaps, but still absolutely riveting as an investigation of a citizen - newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst by any other name - under suspicion of having soured the American Dream. Its imagery (not forgetting the oppressive ceilings) as Welles delightedly explores his mastery of a new vocabulary, still amazes and delights, from the opening shot of the forbidding gates of Xanadu to the last glimpse of the vanishing Rosebud (tarnished, maybe, but still a potent symbol). A film that gets better with each renewed acquaintance.Author: TM
Release details
UK release:
1941
Duration:
119 mins
Cast and crew
Cast:
Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Orson Welles, George Coulouris, Ruth Warrick, Paul Stewart, Ray Collins, Alan Ladd, Everett Sloane
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Screenwriter:
Herman J Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
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