Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event. From TMDB
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60 of 288 · most liked firstPerson who has seen 100 movies: The best movie ever made is Citizen Kane Person who has seen 1000 movies: The best movie ever made is 8 1/2 Person who has seen 10,000 movies: The best movie ever made is Crank 2: High Voltage
neutral · AI labelView post →Orson Welles dug trenches into studio floors on CITIZEN KANE so cameras could shoot up at characters from below ground level. Almost no film then showed ceilings as the space above was reserved for lighting. Welles built ceilings out of muslin so mics could sit above them.
neutral · AI labelView post →i feel this way about CITIZEN KANE, which is a very fun and funny movie
positive · AI labelView post →"Some people say Casablanca or Citizen Kane. I say Jason and the Argonauts is the greatest film ever made." Tom Hanks, 1992.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Melania movie has been getting terrible reviews, with the Rotten Tomato rating of under 20%. But this CBS News movie critic says it’s the Citizen Kane of vanity documentaries.
neutral · AI labelView post →“It is the “Citizen Kane” of second-screen entertainment. Every frame rewards inattention.” I reviewed Fountain of Youth. With my flamethrower. Dear lord, what a lump of nothing. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/foun...
neutral · AI labelView post →Didn’t the movie “TWISTERS” (the “Citizen Kane” of 2024 summer tornado movies) successfully address the incipient dangers of privatizing the National weather service? 🌪️ 🍿 🌪️ 🎥 🌪️
neutral · AI labelView post →Citizen Kane is based on the idea that the richest guy on earth would be really interesting, and I don’t think you’d make that film now.
negative · AI labelView post →Not every movie is going to be a Shakespearian drama. Not every movie is trying to be the next Citizen Kane. Not every movie needs to have constant lore dumps. Film nerds and some critics seem to really hate the idea of a movie simply being fun.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched Citizen Kane for the first time and it was so good I’m furious. Things that everyone agrees are obviously good shouldn’t actually be that good. My actual favorite movie now might be Citizen goddamn Kane. Can you imagine anything more fucking embarrassing
positive · AI labelView post →If he had lived just 5 more years Elvis would have starred in a Muppet movie and it would have been better than Citizen Kane
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished this! I kept hearing it described as a love letter to Chrono Trigger but it felt more like a mashup of Super Mario RPG and Illusion of Gaia. Never quite reached the heights of something like Chrono Trigger but that’s like criticizing a movie for not being Citizen Kane, good videogame!
neutral · AI labelView post →a nice reminder that some Hollywood classics deserve to be freed from the weight of their gargantuan reputations. to me, Citizen Kane is another. i just really really love everything about that movie, right down to Orson Welles’ unconvincing “aging” makeup.
positive · AI labelView post →Every film-centric post on current Twitter and Threads is either: “Everyone thinks CLASSIC MOVIE is good but it’s actually awful—why is no one talking about this?!” or “Every single scene in CITIZEN KANE was improvised and Orson Welles refused to use CGI.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Replace a movie title with a different movie title: Citizen Kane #ReplaceaMovieTitlewithaDifferentMovieTitle
neutral · AI labelView post →'Blade needs a remake like 'Citizen Kane' needs one 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s hard to convey how much the dog world loves that movie. Truly, our Citizen Kane
neutral · AI labelView post →Learned yesterday that as a teenager, Donald Trump wanted to go to film school. His favorite film? Citizen Kane. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep. It's true. I've had the other pine version (meant for on-screen) of Rosebud from Citizen Kane since the early 80s. I snuck it in four of my movies. It's clearly in the Klopek's basement in The Burbs. 🤭
neutral · AI labelView post →Citizen Kane (1941) Directed by, produced by and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. The film is loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst.
neutral · AI labelView post →Famous movie twist endings (SPOILERS): - “Star Wars”: Chewbacca was a ghost - “Titanic”: Rose was a ghost - “Citizen Kane”: Rosebud was a ghost - “Top Gun”: Viper was a ghost - “Skyscraper”: The skyscraper was a ghost - "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial": Elliot was a ghost
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay the Kennedy Center thing is hilarious. Actual Citizen Kane shit. The movie I had made about my wife was so terrible I literally have to close the theater we showed it in down now until everyone forgets about it. Fucking amazing
neutral · AI labelView post →Citizen Kane is great because it reinvented film language—deep focus, bold angles, nonlinear storytelling—while asking a timeless question: can you ever truly know a person? It’s not a biography, but a meditation on power, memory, and loss. #TCMParty #CitizenKane
positive · AI labelView post →The entire reputation of this movie will solely be remembered because someone treats it as the next Citizen Kane (while also defending Hitler and hates women).
neutral · AI labelView post →Guess which film student has two thumbs, Covid, and is watching CITIZEN KANE this morning
neutral · AI labelView post →I always maintain that Little Big League is the Citizen Kane of "sports movie where the sports parts look good"
neutral · AI labelView post →People forget that he said his favorite movie is Citizen Kane and his favorite song is “Is That All There Is?” I think this is why he’s so obsessed with getting a Nobel Peace prize.
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in 2021, 'Paddington 2' replaced 'Citizen Kane' as the top-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes.
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my favourite photos of all time as 26yr old ORSON WELLES arrives at the New York premiere of the Film he’d just directed, starred in & co-written ‘Citizen Kane’ (1941).
neutral · AI labelView post →Insane how modern that movie feels, the pacing alone, you just breeze through it. If ever a movie deserved to be called "ahead of its time", CITIZEN KANE has to be it.
positive · AI labelView post →Achieving the groundbreaking deep focus shots of #CitizenKane required tons of light with 1941 film stocks and lenses. Genius cinematographer Gregg Toland got around this by only lighting certain areas of the film's enormous sets, so that characters walk in and out of pools of light. #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →Before he died in 1985, the final words that Orson Welles said to Warner Bros was to not give Ted Turner any permission to colorized Citizen Kane as it was HIS VISION to have the film be made in black and white.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Please do this for me: Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.” ~ Orson Welles, director of Citizen Kane
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember in the Film Citizen Kane when he bought the newspaper and made everyone think he cared about people, truth, and free speech. But the second it was inconvenient, all that freedom talk went down the tubes?
neutral · AI labelView post →Maybe the movie could just be an hour and half of cutscenes, it would be our Citizen Kane
neutral · AI labelView post →Citizen Kane (1941) 🎬🖤 Directed by Orson Welles
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie has been scapegoated as the film that supposedly “stole” best picture from Citizen Kane, but it is equally good, though of course very different
neutral · AI labelView post →I respect Ted Turner for being really into colorizing films, a bizarre process that everybody hated, and that he tried to do it to Citizen Kane but Orson Welles was like “please don’t let him take crayons to my movie” youtu.be/JI5qy9Zoh_0
neutral · AI labelView post →Not sure why critics expected the Mario Galaxy Movie to be Citizen Kane. I’d say it’s a lot better than some of the slop previously dished out by Illumination or Dreamworks or even Disney in some of their flop eras.
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminder to people arguing about Game Awards and games missing out. Citizen Kane, a film considered by many to be the greatest movie of all time, didn’t win the Oscar for Best Picture. Legacies are not decided by awards.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sure, people say Vertigo and Citizen Kane are great, but NEITHER of them ended with Tim Curry reenacting the whole movie up to that point.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've put my Rosebud prop sled from Citizen Kane to good use in many of my pictures, including The 'Burbs! www.slashfilm.com/1885058/tom-... It's now up for auction. Own a piece of film history right here: entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv...
neutral · AI labelView post →movie it is! what should i watch, having never seen any of them: - The Killing of a Chinese Book - Citizen Kane - Taste of Cherry - The Ice Storm - Chungking Express
neutral · AI labelView post →Citizen Kane (1941) Directed by, produced by and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. The film is loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Canada Day. let's all celebrate by watching the Canadian Citizen Kane.
neutral · AI labelView post →Citizen Kane (Film: 1941 / DVD: 2016) 🔊
neutral · AI labelView post →“Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I’m in all of them.” Joseph Cotten
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my favourite photos of all time as 26yr old ORSON WELLES arrives at the New York premiere of the Film he’d just directed, starred in & co-written ‘Citizen Kane' (1941).
neutral · AI labelView post →Citizen Kane (1941) Directed by, produced by and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. The film is loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst.
neutral · AI labelView post →According to Scott Rogers, in a 2016 interview with yours truly, Orson is named after the innovative film director, Orson Welles. Orson being secluded in his mansion on Ghost Island is meant to pay homage to Welles's Citizen Kane. Also, the name "Orson" sounded funny and wimpy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Composer Bernard Herrmann, born June 29, 1911, scored films from 1941 to 1975. His film music career began with Orson Welles' CITIZEN KANE and ended with Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER. What is your favorite Herrmann film score?
neutral · AI labelView post →Like John Q. Terrible movie. Great Denzel. Denzel approaches every movie he’s in like it’s Citizen Kane and that’s why it’s never wasted time watching a movie he’s in.
neutral · AI labelView post →(Randomly starting discourse) Citizen Kane is a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Citizen Kane (1941) Directed by Orson Welles
neutral · AI labelView post →The premiere of 26yr old ORSON WELLES’ feature Film debut as Actor, Director & Co-Screenwriter took place in New York at the famous Palace Theatre CITIZEN KANE (1941)
neutral · AI labelView post →Film schools are actually not showing Citizen Kane ENOUGH
neutral · AI labelView post →Citizen Kane *dying*: clitorisssss *film continues with nobody being able to find it*
neutral · AI labelView post →If you like Citizen Kane and Hollywood movie history, you'll enjoy this read. Pretty in-depth stuff. #CitizenKane #rosebud #auction #movies #cinema
neutral · AI labelView post →Some people, particularly the obnoxious and snooty variety of critic with a stick up their ass, forget that sometimes a movie is supposed to be just dumb, low stakes fun and escapism. Not every movie is trying to be Citizen Kane. It's okay for a movie to be just okay.
neutral · AI labelView post →Citizen Kane (1941) Directed by, produced by and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. The film is loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst.
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