Citizen Kane Summary

Citizen Kane Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane has been consistently ranked as one of the best films ever made. A masterpiece of technique and storytelling, the film helped to change Hollywood ... Read more

In the following essay, Kael examines the film Citizen Kane, the cinematic milieu in which it was made, the film's biographical sources, and the careers of Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz to... Read more

In the following excerpt, much of which reiterates factual information uncovered by Carringer in a Winter 1978 essay in Critical Inquiry, Carringer examines Mankiewicz's script American, which ... Read more

Critical Essay by Hermine Rich Isaacs [Citizen Kane is] an exciting work, vital and imaginative, full of the unbridled energy which Orson Welles brings to every new medium he invades. As in all Mr. W... Read more

Critical Essay by David Bordwell The best way to understand Citizen Kane is to stop worshiping it as a triumph of technique. Too many people have pretended that Orson Welles was the first to use deep... Read more

Critical Essay by Jorge Luis Borges [Citizen Kane] has at least two arguments. The first, of an almost banal imbecility, wants to bribe the applause of the very unobservant. It can be formulated in t... Read more

"Citizen Kane" is one of the best critically acclaimed films of all time. It is everything a lot of the movies now a day only dream of being. This film is way ahead of it's time in all senses. It uses... Read more

Considered as "the greatest film of all time", Citizen Kane is a powerful dramatic tale which uses a plethora of innovative techniques to successfully investigate the life of a tragic protagonist. Its... Read more