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.
Details
Release details
Duration:
119 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Orson Welles
Screenwriter:
Orson Welles, Herman J Mankiewicz
Cast:
Agnes Moorehead
Alan Ladd
Ray Collins
Paul Stewart
Ruth Warrick
George Coulouris
Orson Welles
Dorothy Comingore
Joseph Cotten
Everett Sloane
Alan Ladd
Ray Collins
Paul Stewart
Ruth Warrick
George Coulouris
Orson Welles
Dorothy Comingore
Joseph Cotten
Everett Sloane