Monday, July 16, 2007
6:00 PM @ Cinema Paradiso
Admission is $5
Discussion to follow
Click here for synopsis and trailer.
Orson Welles | USA | 1941 | 119 min | PG
Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, and Everett Sloane
Reviews:
“Citizen Kane is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound, just as Birth of a Nation assembled everything learned at the summit of the silent era, and 2001 pointed the way beyond narrative. These peaks stand above all the others.”
• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“It is cynical, ironic, sometimes oppressive and as realistic as a slap. But it has more vitality than fifteen other films we could name. And, although it may not give a thoroughly clear answer, at least it brings to mind one deeply moral thought: For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”
“So sharply does Citizen Kane veer from cinema cliche, it hardly seems like a movie.”
• Time
Related: “The Battle Over Citizen Kane”
