Citizen Kane

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    Citizen Kane
    1941

    Synopsis

    Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

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    Cast

    • Orson WellesCharles Foster Kane
    • Joseph CottenJedediah Leland
    • Dorothy ComingoreSusan Alexander Kane
    • Ray CollinsJim W. Gettys
    • George CoulourisWalter Parks Thatcher
    • Agnes MooreheadMary Kane
    • Paul StewartRaymond
    • Ruth WarrickEmily Norton Kane
    • Erskine SanfordHerbert Carter
    • William AllandJerry Thompson/Narrator

    Recommandations

    • 100

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Citizen Kane is a great motion picture. Great in that it was produced by a man who had never had any motion picture experience; great because he cast it with people who had never faced a camera in a motion picture production before; great in the manner of its story-telling, in both the writing of that story and its unfolding before a camera; great in that its photographic accomplishments are the highlights of motion picture photography to date, and finally great, because technically, it is a few steps ahead of anything that has been made in pictures before.
    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Its surface is as much fun as any movie ever made. Its depths surpass understanding. I have analyzed it a shot at a time with more than 30 groups, and together we have seen, I believe, pretty much everything that is there on the screen. The more clearly I can see its physical manifestation, the more I am stirred by its mystery.
    • 100

      New York Daily News

      Welles displays touches of genius in the handling of his story. His cast, made up of players from his Mercury Theatre group, respond like sensitive musicians to the movements of the conductor’s baton.
    • 100

      ReelViews

      While I acknowledge that Kane is a seminal masterpiece, I don't think it's the greatest motion picture of all time. Even so, there's no denying the debt that the movie industry owes to Welles and his debut feature. Motion picture archives and collections across the world would be poorer without copies of this film, which will forever be recognized as a defining example of American cinema.
    • 100

      Empire

      The sheer audacity and delight Welles takes in flouting conventions and inventing new ones is what keeps it fresh.
    • 100

      Variety

      It happens to be a first-class film of potent importance to the art of motion pictures...a triumph for Orson Welles.
    • 100

      The New York Times

      In spite of some disconcerting lapses and strange ambiguities in the creation of the principal character, Citizen Kane is far and away the most surprising and cinematically exciting motion picture to be seen here in many a moon. As a matter of fact, it comes close to being the most sensational film ever made in Hollywood.
    • 100

      Time

      It is a work of art created for grown people by grown people...Orson Welles treats the audience like a jury, calling up the witnesses, letting them offer the evidence, injecting no opinions of his own. He merely sees that their stories are told with absorbing clarity. Unforgettable are such scenes as the spanning of Kane's first marriage in a single conversation, the silly immensity of the castle halls which echo the flat whines of Susan.

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