Scott and Loren tackle #1 on AFI’s Top 100 List: Citizen Kane.
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This Week’s Film: Citizen Kane
From Netflix: Orson Welles reinvented movies at the age of 26 with this audacious biography of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane, which, in essence, was a thinly veiled portrait of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. Welles’s complex and technically stunning film chronicles Kane’s rise from poverty to become one of America’s most influential men — and it’s considered one of the best movies ever made.
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Required Reading
- Battle Over Citizen Kane
- SparkNotes
- Was Citizen Kane Really About William Randolph Hearst?
- William Randolph Hearst
- Citizen Kane at 70
- Gore Vidal’s Remembering Orson Welles
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Citizen Kane versus Vertigo
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