Top review. Short Film Director. Without a doubt the Best Film ever made. Orson Welles make this masterpiece in and still hasn't been overcome. The Acting is incredible, with every performances unique and perfect.
The Direction is flawless. The Cinematography is perfect. The Art is Impeccable. The Sound is Incredible. The Editing it is Revolutionary in its own way. Many of the novel techniques Welles developed with the cinematographer were calculated to offer new angles on film space. Everything that has something to do with this film is a masterpiece. The Story is a major hit, with an amazing plot and a strong argument, This Film is a Masterpiece, is truly one of the best films out there, certainly a high point in early cinema.
GusRED Oct 29, FAQ 6. What is 'Citizen Kane' about? Is 'Citizen Kane' based on a book? Is this film based on a true story? Details Edit. Release date September 5, United States. United States. Official Facebook. The camera loves partial lighting or under lighting, with faces or figures blacked out, features emphasized or thrown into shadow, with one point of high light in an area of gloom or foreground figures black against brightness, with the key shifting according to mood, with every scene modeled for special effects with light batteries of varying function and power, gobos, barndoors, screens, what not.
There is nothing newer about shooting into lights than shooting into the sun, but there is, I suppose, something new in having the whole book thrown at you at once. Sometimes all this is fine and really does the job it is put to.
Along with the wide action range, it is a relief from too much closeness and light, an effect of stretching. Half real and half fish, as in the case of mermaids, is always a thing to cause vague frustration; and too often here it seems as though they were working up a feeling of omen just for the ride.
This camera also likes many of the angles so thoroughly kicked around by the experimental films—floor shots, especially, where the camera gives figures height and takes away width, makes them ominous, or at least portentous in their motions.
Add mirrors. And add the usual working tools of long, medium and two-shots, close-ups, dolly shots, panoramas. In the cutting there are several things noticeable. One is the long easy sweep you can get when a scene of action is covered in one long-range set-up. Another lies partly in the method of treatment and partly in lack of care, and that is the time-and-place confusion which arises when you go smack from the first two-thirds of a sentence to the last third of the same sentence, spoken elsewhere years later.
This is done time and again and you might call it jump-cutting or you might call it the old shell game as far as the audience is concerned. Another thing about the cutting that goes altogether to the fault of direction is the monotony and amateurism of handling simple dialogue.
Over and over there are the two faces talking, talk, talk, talk, then close-up of the right speaker asking, then close-up of left speaker answering, then back to two.
Outside of getting your name in large letters, being a director consists exactly in knowing how to break this up, to keep interest shifting, to stress the reaction to a line more sharply than the face saying it. Orson Welles was naturally entranced with the marvelous things the moving camera could do for him; and while much has resulted from this preoccupation, I think his neglect of what the camera could do to him is the main reason why the picture somehow leaves you cold even while your mouth is still open at its excitements.
This stuff is fine theatre, technically or any other way, and along with them the film is exciting for the recklessness of its independence, even if it seems to have little to be free for. There is surely nothing against it as a dramatic venture that it is no advance in screen technique at all, but a retrogression.
The movies could use Orson Welles. But so could Orson Welles use the movies, that is, if he wants to make pictures. Hollywood is a great field for fanfare, but it is also a field in which even Genius has to do it the hard way; and Citizen Kane rather makes me doubt that Orson Welles really wants to make pictures. You are using an outdated browser. The myths and fabrications concerning the life of Calamity Jane are so numerous it is difficult to discover her true story.
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The U-2 spy plane was the On May 1, , Ford Motor Company becomes one of the first companies in America to adopt a five-day, hour week for workers in its automotive factories. Unlike a lot of other classics whose greatness was recognized belatedly, Citizen Kane actually came roaring out of the gate.
By the time Kane began screening for the press, its theatrical fate was in jeopardy. RKO had already moved its release date several times, and efforts were underway by the other studios — many of whose chiefs had close ties to Hearst — to buy and destroy the print before it could be seen. Oddly, all these efforts may have helped build additional hype around Kane.
For journalists and critics writing about the movie at least, for non-Hearst publications , there was some urgency in making sure that readers knew that the film was, you know, good. Back then, the Hollywood majors actually owned most of the screens in the country, a fact which had helped power the rise of the studio system. Seven years later, after a landmark anti-trust case brought about by the U. This helped precipitate the gradual decline of the studio system and the eventual rise of the Film Brat Generation … led by directors who worshipped Citizen Kane and Orson Welles and who would ultimately transform the industry.
They even tried to get him arrested: Welles recounted that during a lecture tour in Buffalo, New York, he was warned at dinner one night not to go back to his hotel, as there was a year-old girl and a couple of Hearst photographers waiting in his room for him. But what America dismissed, Europe embraced.
After World War II, Kane began to make its way across the formerly war-torn corners of the continent. Along the way, it became a phenomenon. Indeed, Truffaut noted how poorly it had been subtitled in French.
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