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 film-making and still exerts considerable influence today....

Citizen Kane is a 1941 mystery/drama film. Released by RKO Pictures, it was the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. The story traces the life and career of Charles Foster Kane, a man whose career in the publishing world was born of idealistic...

FILM OF THE QUARTER CITIZEN KANE Orson Welles (d), Herman Mankiewicz, Orson Wolles (w), US, 1941, 159 Minutes. ACTORS INCLUDE: Orson Welles, Joseph Gotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead, William Alland, George Coulouris, Erskine Sanford. DVD FEATURES INCLUDE: Audio Commentaries by...

CITIZEN KANE A Warner Home Video release of the 1941 RKO Radio Pictures film directed by Orson Welles. Screenplay, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Welles. With: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, Ruth Warrick, Paul...

The new "Transformers" movie boasts a good cast, but it's got nothing on the original.In a classic bit of movie trivia, the little-seen 1986 animated film "Transformers: The Movie" was Orson Welles' last film. Yes, that Orson Welles.The filmmaking legend who remade cinema with "Citizen...

The years have been kind to "Citizen Kane," including the last decade. The 1941 Orson Welles classic _ the story of a wealthy young idealist transformed by scandal and vice into a regretful old recluse _ was again rated the best movie ever Wednesday by...

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 support her controversial hypothesis that authorship of the film's Academy Award-winning screenplay belongs mainly to Mankiewicz.

In the following excerpt originally published in 1978, Naremore sides with Carringer as to the authorship of Citizen Kane, and suggests the script was as much concerned with Mankiewicz's and John Houseman's perception of Orson Welles as it was based on the life of William Randolph Hearst.

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 was the original draft of Citizen Kane, to support his thesis that Welles and Mankiewicz deserve equal credit for the screenplay.

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 multitudinous themes and universality of characters have been appraised throughout time by an array of critics and schools of analytical reading.

Citizen Kane, considered by the American Film Institute as the best American film ever made, could have easily never been made. By giving Welles his ironclad contract, RKO Pictures set in motions a series of events that would not only change cinematic history but would also prove to be the downfall of its creator.

The visual effects, nonlinear storyline and symbolism make the classic film "Citizen Kane" a movie ahead of its time.