Citizen Kane (1941)

Posted : 1 year ago at Jun 30 16:24

Wunderkind Orson Welles shot himself in the foot with this film. This is the kind of amazing, practically perfect in every way, film that a director makes towards the end of his career. Not the first one out of the gate. Loosely based on a true story, but given fantastic visuals to play with and an interesting premise -- what can one word reveal about a man? What could it explain? Well, nothing really, because nothing along these lines can really be explained. Who was he? Not even his two wives and best friends knew. "Rosebud" was just a symbol ? a security blanket, of his childhood before it was interrupted, and his long lost innocence. If the reporters found it, they wouldn't understand what it was beyond the physical object. But back to the visuals for a minute, one of the first sequenc...Read more

Posted : 2 years, 1 month ago at May 28 9:08

I finally got around to seeing this classic. It took me a few tries, because I kept falling asleep (to be fair, I always started it late at night, while in bed, so take into consideration). After 3 tries, I finally got around to finishing it. I had real high hopes for this classic. Being so high up in IMDb Top250, and on top of that, being called Number 1 film of ALL TIME by American Film Institute, well, it did have a lot of things to live up to. Is it a great classic must-see film? Yes, of course, although it can be very tough to watch as the pacing is quite slow at times and film is told in very non-linear flashbacks. But I honestly believe it gets such high marks and acclaim because of the significance of the revolutionary-at-its-time filming style of Orson Welles and the ma...Read more

Rating : 7/10