Link to Searcher source: (a great article that goes in-depth on the feudal parts of Citizen Kane’s production and release) https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/kane-william-randolph-...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
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
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
Throughout the duration of Citizen Kane, I found myself to be detached from the film; I was not entirely sure as to what the purpose of it was. Considered as one of the most influential films of all t...Read More
To be honest, watching Citizen Kane for the first time I felt myself slightly falling asleep. The black and white made the movie feel very dark and it felt like every shot was crowded with lots of old...Read More
I think we can all agree that Charles Foster Kane was bigger than life, that his character and story arc fit his status as a newspaper tycoon and the protagonist in Citizen Kane. However, in the case ...Read More