This year is the 75th anniversary of the most acclaimed movie of all time. Generally regarded as the cinema’s greatest masterwork, it has topped more critic’s Best Films lists than any other movie. Cinelinx takes a look at the much praised Citizen Kane to see if it really deserves all the accolades it has received.
First some background: The behind-the-scenes story of Citizen Kane (1941) is just as interesting as the film itself. Young filmmaker Orson Welles had been the wunderkind of stage and radio throughout the 1930s—best known at that point for his infamous radio performance of War of the Worlds, which panicked thousands of people who really believed we were being invaded by Martians—and was given a free hand by Rko Pictures to have total creative control over his first film. This was unheard of at the time. Along with co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, director Welles...
First some background: The behind-the-scenes story of Citizen Kane (1941) is just as interesting as the film itself. Young filmmaker Orson Welles had been the wunderkind of stage and radio throughout the 1930s—best known at that point for his infamous radio performance of War of the Worlds, which panicked thousands of people who really believed we were being invaded by Martians—and was given a free hand by Rko Pictures to have total creative control over his first film. This was unheard of at the time. Along with co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, director Welles...
- 9/11/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
Derek Jeter will be front and center at a Massive secret party at a historic castle on Long Island this weekend, TMZ Sports has learned ... and now we're hearing buzz it could be a wedding. Here's what we know ... the party is set to go down at the famous Oheka Castle -- which was used for the exterior shots of Charles Kane's mansion in the 1941 Hollywood flick "Citizen Kane." Multiple sources tell us ... several...
- 10/3/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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