119 mins |
Rated
PG
Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Paul Stewart, Erskine Sanford, Ray Collins, George Coulouris
Screening as part of Classics at The Vic
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
The picture was Orson Welles's first feature film. Considered by many critics and filmmakers to be the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane was voted number 1 in five consecutive British Film Institute Sight & Sound polls of critics, and it topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as its 2007 update. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Mankiewicz and Welles. Citizen Kane is praised for Gregg Toland's cinematography, Robert Wise's editing, Bernard Herrmann's music, and its narrative structure, all of which have been considered innovative and precedent-setting.
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Screening as part of Classics at The Vic
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
The picture was Orson Welles's first feature film. Considered by many critics and filmmakers to be the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane was voted number 1 in five consecutive British Film Institute Sight & Sound polls of critics, and it topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as its 2007 update. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Mankiewicz and Welles. Citizen Kane is praised for Gregg Toland's cinematography, Robert Wise's editing, Bernard Herrmann's music, and its narrative structure, all of which have been considered innovative and precedent-setting.