The negative review, published by the Chicago Tribute on May 7, 1941, was the 116th review of the film on the website. Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ … [Read more...]
‘Paddington 2’ unseats ‘Citizen Kane’ on Rotten Tomatoes meter. How did that happen?
The 1941 film “Citizen Kane” has long sat atop Rotten Tomatoes’ leaderboards as the site’s highest reviewed piece of cinema. Then the site added a negative “Kane” review from 1941, thus killing the film’s perfect rating and putting “Paddington 2” in the top slot. Source: https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/ … [Read more...]
The untold truth of Citizen Kane
Everybody has their own idea of the greatest movie ever made, but few have been as universally agreed on as Citizen Kane. The classic story of a reporter trying to piece together the story of a multimillionaire after his death — and the meaning of his last words — has endured over the years since its release in 1941. It topped a survey of hundreds … [Read more...]
Netflix’s Mank Trailer: David Fincher And Gary Oldman Dig Deep Into Citizen Kane’s Sordid History
It remains one of the greatest films ever produced. Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, a movie about media mogul William Randolph Hurst that introduced the film industry to a revolutionary new storyteller and redefined how movies were shot for decades. You wouldn’t trust the story behind Citizen Kane to just any old director, which is why it brings me … [Read more...]
Martin Scorsese Argues For Film Preservation in 2013 Jefferson Lecture
Drawing upon films that included Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane,” Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” and Thomas Edison’s short of two cats engaged in a boxing match, Martin Scorsese made the case on Monday evening that Americans “need to take pride in our cinema, our great American art form” and that all films need to be preserved, regardless of their … [Read more...]
‘Citizen Kane’ no longer tops ‘Sight & Sound’ poll of the greatest films ever made.
We hope somewhere in movie-character heaven Charles Foster Kane still finds comfort in the memory of his childhood sled, because for the first time in 50 years Citizen Kane doesn’t top the Sight & Sound poll. … [Read more...]
