Loved this movie!! I've never been into classics but have recently decided to try and watch the American Film Institute's 100 Best. This one is rated #1 on the list and it does not disappoint. The DVD I just watched is a library copy and I'm wanting to watch it again before returning it. I especially liked Orson Welles's performance and his utilization, as director, of camera angles and sound ... read more
Description:Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles' 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions and can't be known easily. Welles plays newspaper Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles' 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions and can't be known easily. Welles plays newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. The result is that every well-meaning or 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. Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and photographed by Gregg Toland, the film is the sum of Welles's awesome ambitions as an artist in Hollywood. He pushes the limits of then-available technology to create a true magic show, a visual and aural feast that almost seems to be rising up from a viewer's subconscious. As Kane, Welles even ushers in the influence of Bertolt Brechton film acting. This is truly a one-of-a-kind work, and in many ways is still the most modern of modern films this century. --Tom Keogh... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Turner Home Ent Release date : 25 September 2001 Number of discs : 2 EAN: 9780780635203 UPC: 053939656527
“Loved this movie!! I've never been into classics but have recently decided to try and watch the American Film Institute's 100 Best. This one is rated #1 on the list and it does not disappoint. The DVD I just watched is a library copy and I'm wanting to watch it again before returning it. I especially liked Orson Welles's performance and his utilization, as director, of camera angles and sound effects to provide a dramatic and somewhat gothic style presentation. But there is way so much more! The story itself is rich with subject material to ponder such as wealth and the power it brings. In this case a rich man's power to sway the public as he sees fit through the use of his newspaper, which he inherited. He utilizes his resources to promote those who may not deserve it, including hi” read more
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