RATING: 5/5 Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane
Director: Orson Welles
Genre: Drama
MPAA: Rated PG. Protect Your PC
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Nudity: None
Profanity: None
Sex: PG equivalent; mild sexual dialogue, adultery implied
Violence: PG equivalent; minor
Other: PG equivalent; intoxication
"Rosebud…”.
The final words of brilliant tycoon and politician Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles). What ‘Rosebud’ means no one knows. It's time to journey back and identify the man, his desires, his ambitions, and the true meaning of this glamorous and news worthy life. "Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, I don't think it would have explained everything. I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece." Citizen Kane, Orson Welles first feature film in which he starred, co-wrote, directed, and produced, is without hesitation the filmmakers most influential and greatest cinematic achievement, proclaimed by many to be the great American film of all-time. Citizen Kane claims a gothic mood, gloomy, as though the entire world is surrounded in a dense fog of hopelessness; for this is as our character soul is sustained. Why is this film such a powerful depiction of a tycoon? It gives audiences an ambitious man rising to greatness but with each graduation into success, the more wearisome and isolated he becomes; the more unsatisfied he is. He’s in love with the idea of love; he’s in love with the image of success. Orson Welles directional achievements included "The Magnificent Ambersons", "The Stranger", "Macbeth", "Touch of Evil", and "Mr. Arkadin". Welles won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Citizen Kane. New Rollbacks on Select Disney DVDs Now Only $11.97 Each at Walmart.com
Netflix lets you rent, watch and return DVDs from home - Try free for 2 weeks The cast includes Joseph Cotton ("Gaslight", "The Magnificent Ambersons"), Agnes Moorehead ("Dark Passage", "Johnny Belinda"), Ruth Warrick ("The Great Bank Robbery"), and Everett Sloane ("Journey Into Fear"). Citizen Kane has been proclaimed by many as one of the greatest films of all-time. And it's recognizable why critics have escalated it to such heights...its influence is undeniable. It truly ranks among the finest: Casablanca, The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, It's a Wonderful Life, Schindler's List.
Citizen Kane was obviously underappreciated in its time, only receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Picture—the Oscar went to the undeserving How Green Was My Valley.
In my opinion is Citizen Kane the greatest cinematic achievement? It is without hesitation on my top 10 greatest films, along with Casablanca and Schlinder’s List.
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