Citizen Kane

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Call Number: DVD Drama Citizen
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1941.
Edition statement provided by Amazon.com.
Special features: Separate commentaries by Roger Ebert and Peter Bogdanovich; Interviews with Ruth Warrick and Robert Wise; Opening: World Premier of Citizen Kane; Still photography with commentary by Roger Ebert and more.
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead.
Alone at his fantastic estate known as Xanadu, 70-year-old Charles Foster Kane dies, uttering only the single word Rosebud. So ends the odyssey of a life, and begins a fabulous tale of the rise to wealth and power, and ultimate fall, of a complex man.
DVD; NTSC, Region 1, full screen (standard) presentation; Dolby Audio mono.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Fantastic Filmmaking submitted by Meginator on August 2, 2017, 9:46pm Even today it's easy to see why Citizen Kane is revered as a classic film. The interplay of light and darkness, the use of mirrors and windows and doors to frame faces and convey separation, and the innovative use of higher and lower camera angles all combine to create a masterpiece, and that's just the cinematography. The story is both of its era and timeless, the characters are portrayed to perfection, and the central question ("What is 'Rosebud'"?) is both resolved and open-ended by the film's end. This is a cinematic masterpiece that has aged gracefully and its influence and importance cannot be overstated.

Citizen Kane on DVD submitted by a2sue on July 21, 2019, 1:36pm I've never understood why the DVD of Citizen Kane is so well-regarded. I thought it was confusing and kind of boring, actually. Not my cup of tea!

I cannot believe that this best movie EVER made has just a couple reviews, and Spielberg's fairy tale "Jaws" has 20! submitted by Tassos on September 28, 2019, 6:35pm "Citizen Kane" is a masterpiece one can see again and again, yesterday, today, and in 2525 it will still be just as AMAZINGLY GOOD.

It is also very POETIC, you cannot find scenes like the one with the toy sled being burned and the smoke coming out of the chimney. Symbolic and heart-breaking unless you are brain dead.