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  Citizen Kane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Citizen Kane is rumored to be based on the lives of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the reclusive aerospace and movie mogul Howard Hughes, and the Chicago utilities magnate Samuel Insull.
Kane dies in the opening scene of the film at his estate Xanadu; this is followed by a newsreel pastiche documenting Kane's public life (this segment was produced by RKO's actual newsreel department).
Citizen Kane (1941) • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) • The Stranger (1946) • The Lady from Shanghai (1947) • Macbeth (1948) • Othello (1952) • Mr.
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 Citizen Kane
In one of the film's most memorable images, Kane, having torn apart in anger the bedroom of his wife (who's finally worked up the strength to leave him), walks trance-like down an echoing corridor lined with mirrors, where his reflection is multiplied a hundred-fold into the distance.
Citizen Kane is about those images that we all reflect and project, the sum total of which -- the impressions we make on other people -- are all we that leave behind us.
Citizen Kane is a portrait of a public and private figure that, by design, remains tantalizingly unfinished.
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 Citizen Kane
Kane has paid no attention to him and, having opened the door, is already well into the hall that leads to the side door of the house.
Kane took the leading part in the opera, and she was terrible.
KANE Of her acting, it is absolutely impossible to say anything except that it represents a new low...
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 All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Citizen Kane
"Citizen Kane" is loosely based on the life of "yellow journalism" newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Kane (Orson Welles, who also directed and co-wrote the screenplay) is separated from his parents as a child and made heir to an enormous fortune.
This is demonstrated at length by Kane building a lavish opera house for Susan to perform in, then sending her on a cross-country tour, in the face of widespread ridicule of her hopeless lack of talent.
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 Bright Lights Film Journal | Citizen Kane
An outgrowth from his journalism, Kane’s politics were both progressive and domineering, as if each of his life’s tasks tripped a mechanism that mitigated against the full acceptance of his being — by himself or others.
Early in Citizen Kane, the young Kane admits his irreconcilable position as the head of a trust and the attacker of that trust.
Citizen Kane is of course available all over the place in the format of your choice.
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 Citizen Kane (1941)
While the cipher of "deep-focus photography" is bandied about as the chief innovation of Citizen Kane, this serves merely as a disguise for Gregg Toland and Welles' genius for laying out, dramatically lighting and executing scenes.
All in all, Citizen Kane is something of an exercise in virtuosity and how to use (rather than be used by) special effects.
As Kane, Welles is incomparable, utterly convincing as the self-deluded and ego-bound media baron, flawed by iron-will and an apparent search for something lost long ago.
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 Citizen Kane (1941)
Kane's life was corrupted and ultimately self-destructed by a lust to fulfill the American dream of success, fame, wealth, power and immortality.
Kane's coffin emerges from Xanadu as it is borne by coffin-bearers.
Kane's Boarding House] by a defaulting boarder in 1868 was left the supposedly worthless deed to an abandoned mine shaft - the Colorado Lode.
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 Citizen Kane (1941)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This isn't to say that I thought CITIZEN KANE was a bad film; in fact, I thought everything about it was downright brilliant.
From the enchanting performances right down to the meticulously planned camera movements and clever lighting tricks, there isn't a single element of CITIZEN KANE that isn't a stunning achievement in all areas of filmmaking.
To me, it was these moments of confusion and uncertainty followed by a sense of enlightenment and appreciation that made watching CITIZEN KANE such a meaningful experience.
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 Amazon.com: Citizen Kane: DVD: Orson Welles,Joseph Cotten,Georgia Backus,Fortunio Bonanova,Sonny Bupp,Ray ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known easily.
What was unprecedented was that `Citizen Kane' was the first film ever to depart from the strict narrative format, which moves forward chronologically.
Citizen Kane is one of the most legendary motion pictures ever made.
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 Citizen Kane
KANE As Charles Foster Kane, who has eighty- two thousand, six hundred and thirty-one shares of Metropolitan Transfer - you see, I do have a rough idea of my holdings - I sympathize with you.
The entire newspaper is crushed with an angry gesture and thrown down into an expensive- looking wastebasket (which is primarily for ticker tape) tape is pouring.
KANE'S OFFICE - NIGHT By the desk light, Kane is seen working with his usual intensity, Reilly standing beside him at the desk.
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 Citizen Kane
CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history.
"The question isn’t whether Citizen Kane is one of the greatest films ever made; that’s a given.
"Citizen Kane is far and away the most surprising and cinematically exciting motion picture to be seen here in many a moon.
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 Citizen Kane Pathfinder
The American Film Institute voted "Citizen Kane" the number one film of all time.
Citizen Kane - text of the script by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles.
Article about techniques used in Orson Welles's classic that were used previously in movies ignored by film scholars who champion 'Citizen Kane.'
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 Errol Morris: Aborted Projects
He puts the reel on an aging Movieola and on the screen a scene from Citizen Kane flickers into view.
It is one of the lost scenes from Citizen Kane, one of the scenes that has Donald Trump in it...
THE DONALD, a man in his early fifties with a spectacular hair-do, is reading a newspaper at breakfast...
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 Citizen Kane - Reviews on RateItAll
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Directed, produced and co-wrote by Orson Welles, Citizen Kane...
Citizen Kane is a cinema work of art.
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 Citizen Kane | TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 movies
amed the greatest of all films in poll after critics' poll for the past half-century, Kane might by now seem suitable for viewing not through the glass of the movie projector but under glass, in the museum of outmoded innovations.
The kid who had never made a movie ignored the rules, and remade movies.
We don't need to replace Citizen Kane with another all-time great film—its expansive, epic vitality remains fresh—but we sure could use another Welles.—R.C. From the TIME Archive:
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 Citizen Kane (1941)
He dies whispering the word "Rosebud," an event that sets off a nationwide search for the meaning of the word.
Citizen Kane (60th Anniversary) (Anniversary Edition)(2 DVD Set)
Thematically similar drama about ambitious politician's rise and fall.
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 Citizen Kane
Hit man Chev (Jason Statham) must keep his adrenaline flowing to prevent a lethal dose of poison from reaching his heart.
"Charles Foster Kane se torna assustadoramente real à medida em que o filme tenta desvendar sua personalidade."
Citizen Kane - first R1 DVD review here!
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 Citizen Kane (1941)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nutzerkommentare: CITIZEN KANE may let some people down, but it's still worth seeing.
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