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 ...
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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...
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In the following excerpt, Buckley discusses a revival of the films of brothers Herman and Joseph Mankiewicz.
At the Regency, Manhattan's leading revival house, the old stars never die . . . or ...
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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 ...
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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 Jo...
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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. We...
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Critical Essay by Otis Ferguson
"Citizen Kane" in its story uses the cut-back method—which is convenient but has its drawbacks in the constant interruption of a steady line…...
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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-...
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Critical Essay by Peter Cowie
Welles did not invent any new cinematic processes: he fused the experience of three decades into one gigantic work that proclaimed with tremendous power just how effectiv...
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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 th...
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Critical Essay by Tony Richardson
Welles breaks all the rules and cracks like a plant out-growing its pot the very capacity of the category we have established. For of all the metteurs en scène...
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"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...
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In the scene, "Life with Emily," Orson Wells uses a combination of dialogue, facial expressions and clothing to represent a troubled marriage all in the course of a breakfast. As the scene progresses ...
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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...
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In 1941 one man's film contract would help create a film that would change filmmaking forever. This film would spark controversy and catapult its filmmaker into history. The film was Citizen Kane an...
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Citizen Kane
