film and narrative techniques was enough to have several organizations declare “Citizen Kane” as the best film of all time. No more! Orson Welles’ 1941 masterpiece and thinly veiled knock ...

The review was published a few days after “Citizen Kane” first started rolling out into theaters in 1941. The critic branded the movie “a flop” and wrote that the film’s noir-inspired ...

‘Citizen Kane’ is a triumph for Orson Welles, who overnight, so to speak, joins the top ranks of boxoffice film personalities. Flin. 1941: Best Original Screenplay. Nominations: Best ...

“Citizen Kane” can hardly suggest the ways and habits ... ♦ Published in the print edition of the May 3, 1941, issue. When we watch the actor’s stunts, we are watching someone defy death ...

It was a fight from which neither man ever fully recovered. Long before Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was released in 1941, there was a buzz about the movie and the "boy genius" who made it.

Mayer and Tom Pelphrey as Joe Mankiewicz in 2020's "Mank" and Orson Welles circa 1941 (right). Courtesy Everett Collection; Netflix When you think of “Citizen Kane,” considered by many critics ...

Orson Welles, already an institution at the age of 25, arrives at the 1941 premiere of his masterpiece. United Archives GMBH / Alamy When Citizen Kane premiered on May 1, 1941, it wasn’t at ...

EXCLUSIVE: The hammer just went down over the weekend on the one and only Oscar win for Citizen Kane, a 1941 movie many still consider the crown jewel of Hollywood, the greatest ever made.

Was Welles, who with “Citizen Kane” (1941) created what is often cited as the greatest movie ever made on his first try, actually standing on the shoulders of another genius? The movie ...

While Kane is dying, he drops a snow globe on the floor, which breaks. Hearst took action when he discovered that his newspaper and radio stations across the country featured no mention of Citizen ...