Citizen Kane (1941)

Directors:

Orson Welles

Writers:

Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz

Actors:

Charles Bennett, Arthur Kay, Tim Davis, Arthur Yeoman, Tudor Williams, Harry J. Vejar

Synopsis:

Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Citizen Kane (1941)

While I might disagree with the AFI wisdom that this is the greatest film of all time, it is some damn fine film making and shows a lot of craft from first time director Orson Welles. See it if only because every cinephile has to, at least once.
wintermayer
February 23, 2012