"Citizen Kane," which celebrates its 80th birthday May 1, is the Muhammad Ali of movies. The Greatest. You can argue otherwise — just as you can argue that Lincoln isn't the greatest president ...

Courtesy Everett Collection; Netflix When you think of “Citizen Kane,” considered by many critics to be the greatest movie ever made, one name comes to mind: Orson Welles. That towering auteur ...

United Archives GMBH / Alamy When Citizen Kane premiered on May 1, 1941, it wasn’t at some historic Hollywood theater, or even at one of New York’s fancy movie houses. Instead, the film ...