Citizen Kane
Citizen
Kane is a 1941 mystery/drama film released by RKO Pictures and directed by
Orson Welles, his first feature film. The story
traces the life and career of Charles Foster Kane, a man whose career in the
publishing world was born of idealistic social service, but gradually evolved
into a ruthless pursuit of power and ego at any cost. 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.
"Despite
numerous positive reviews from critics at the time,[7] the film was not a box
office success (just making back enough to cover the budget, but not enough to
make a profit), which resulted in Welles' career
suffering a crippling blow. He spent the rest of his life struggling to make
films on his own terms. He lived long enough to see his debut film acknowledged
as a classic, and late in life he famously remarked that he'd started at the
top and spent the rest of his life working his way down.
Due to
the Second World War, Citizen Kane was little seen and virtually forgotten
until its release in
[1]
Wikipedia.org
This
Film was ranked at the #1 Film on the AFI List of the 100 Greatest U.S. Movies
of All Time
Here
is a link to Roger Ebert’s Great Movies article on Citizen Kane
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