Reading this chapter has changed my prior beliefs about what defines a genre. I thought it would be very clear and specific like comedy, science fiction, horror, and action. But as the book mentioned,...Read More
While viewers of The Zone of Interest can agree upon many themes they heavily debate what the meaning of the film is and more specifically what the end of the film means. I had the valuable experience...Read More
When I watched Citizen Kane, I could not help but compare it to the other older movies we have watched in class. The ways in which this week’s feature is both similar and different from Rear Window,...Read More
Even 80 years after its release, Citizen Kane has retained its modernity and skill in storytelling because of Orson Welles’ forward-thinking and artful use of the various elements within mise en scÃ...Read More
I read a film review of Citizen Kane by John C. Flinn Sr. This review was very interesting to me because it is from 1941, the year when the movie came out. I thought it was cool to read a review from ...Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKra6_NAey8 In this interview that was originally filmed in 1958 Orson Welles, the director, writer, and lead actor of Citizen Kane, divulges what was going on with stu...Read More
As a film from 1941, Citizen Kane did not bore me while I was watching it, which surprised me for a piece this old. Just like the book mentioned, the movie built the narrative using the non-linear plo...Read More
After watching Citizen Kane, I didn’t understand why it was such a highly-regarded film. Other films we’ve screened in this class have been so clearly different from the movies I’d usually watch...Read More
When I first began watching I can admit I was very lost and uninterested in the plot. It was at times hard to follow and the quality of the audio made it hard to understand at times. Despite this I co...Read More
One of the key narrative elements of Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) is its non-linear storytelling. Because Charles Foster Kane is revealed to be deceased in the intro sequence, the film heavily relies o...Read More