Why the 'best' picture doesn't always win the Oscar.
A summary of The Authorship Controversy in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Citizen Kane and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
It's fair to say that sometimes (or maybe even most of the time, for the pessimists out there), life doesn't work out the way we think it will. This is definitely the case for Charles Foster Kane, the title character from Orson Welles' super-famous, super-revered, and super-classic film, Citizen Kane. Charles enters adulthood as an idealistic guy who wants to take on the rich and greedy and.
The strange saga of Orson Welles's Oscar statuette Orson Welles won an Oscar for Citizen Kane, but its sale at auction has opened the lid on the murky world of the trade in the famous statuettes.
Citizen Kane is 70. Three score years and 10 after its New York premiere in May 1941, it is still everywhere. Not just in its own flesh, as reissue, telecast or DVD, but in the monstrous spell it.
Citizen Kane When Orson Welle's Citizen Kane was released in 1941 it shocked the film industry with its distorted angles and unusual style.. Some criticisms of Citizen Kane include; its narrative structure is unduly complicated, its technique calls attention to itself and its intellectual content is superficial.
When he directed Citizen Kane, a twenty-five year-old wunderkind Orson Welles had already had some success with his War of the Worlds radio broadcast and his independent Mercury Theatre company. But despite his success, RKO Pictures took a huge risk by giving him a movie contract that gave him full creative control to make whatever movie he wanted.
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Citizen Kane has long been acclaimed as a work of genius and endlessly dissected by critics. But a mystery still lies at the heart of this masterpiece. On the eve of Orson Welles’s centenary.
The repetition of this poll in the early 1970s and once again in 1982 produced the same result: Citizen Kane was a solid first each time. Even more important than the opinion of critics is the opinion of audiences. They too, decade after decade, have ranked Citizen Kane as their favorite film.
Citizen Kane is available as a standalone Blu-ray book set (featuring Kane and The Battle Over Citizen Kane documentary from 1996), and as part of Warner Home Video’s Citizen Kane 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition on DVD and Blu-ray, which includes the HBO teleplay RKO 281 (1999), and several unique extras.
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A summary of Themes in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Citizen Kane and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
The Battle Over Citizen Kane. Besides being named (rightfully) as the greatest movie of all time, Citizen Kane produced one of the most vicious controversies ever to strike Hollywood.The battle was between two titans, both at the zenith of their respective, and loosely related, industries: William Randolph Hearst, newspaper magnate, and Orson Welles, radio and movie genius.
