Even Jedediah Leland (opera reviewer in the film) knew better than to be taken in by "Salaambo's" empty reverberations.Annette Insdorf, film professor and department co-chair, Columbia University:"Citizen Kane" remains one of the richest audiovisual experiences in the history of the cinema. ...
CITIZEN KANE (1941) – AFI Movie Club Twice ranked by the American Film Institute as the greatest American film ever made, CITIZEN KANE’s iconic opening line –“Rosebud,” uttered b
Streisand and the film echoed Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane in that it was her first directorial feature, she produced it, co-wrote it, and starred in it—exactly like Welles and Kane. And exactly like Welles and Kane, there was a great deal of personal animosity around her probably rooted...
Citizen Kane: During a flashback to Charles Kane’s childhood, director Orson Welles was deliberate with composition and depth of space. He placed Kane outside playing in the snow, visually between the adults debating his future. Welles also employed deep focus—a term used to describe when ev...
In Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941), significant characters are repeatedly framed in the right or left foreground while in the background an action takes place that disturbs that character or that that character somehow controls. The gigantic political poster of Kane that rises behind the ...
life may be startled by the film they actually see after potentially hearing of its mediocrity as a reflection of director Orson Welles’s desire to achieve a functional worker-for-hire anonymity following the brilliant but unprofitable one-two punch of Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons. ...
." True to its title, the show ranked the 100 greatest lines in the history of American cinema up to that point. Six different quotes from the classic "Casablanca" earned a spot on AFI's list, making it the most well-represented movie in the entire special. Take that, "Citizen Kane....
He is still best known for co-writing and directing Citizen Kane (1941), a landmark in film history, but also made astonishingly audacious stage productions, such as a production of Macbeth in Harlem with an all black cast.However, it was on radio where he reached national attention in ...
Ed Lachman, ASC: The film explores the life of Maria Callas, and the scenes of her past are shot in black and white Negative with the Ultra Baltars, which was glass used over 70 years ago in “Magnificent Ambersons,” parts of “Citizen Kane,” and “Touch of Evil,” which I also ...
“thing” that belongs to film noir is a feeling, it is something that also is very specific to a era in time. Schrader says how it is “period of time in film history”, which goes to show how strange film noir is. How can something that is so nonspecific belong to something so ...