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Article: CITIZEN KANE
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- Metro : Media & Education Magazine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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FILM OF THE QUARTER
CITIZEN KANE
Orson Welles (d), Herman Mankiewicz, Orson Wolles (w), US, 1941, 159 Minutes. ACTORS INCLUDE: Orson Welles, Joseph Gotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead, William Alland, George Coulouris, Erskine Sanford. DVD FEATURES INCLUDE: Audio Commentaries by Roger Ebert and Peter Bogdanovich and ttie Documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane.
There are many ironies surrounding Citizen Kane's status as 'the greatest film of all time'. Not unlike the place where Charles Foster Kane lived and died, Welles' masterpiece may be regarded as the 'costliest monument of a man (built) to himself. Welles, of course, paid a great price for creating an artifact ...