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William Friedkin on Citizen Kane: Greatness in the Making
Rob Feld
DGA Quarterly
Summer 2012
6·21·2012
William Friedkin on Citizen Kane
Created by American Film Institute
4·29·2011
Why You Should Care About ‘Citizen Kane’
Richard Brownell
Medium
5·4·2018
Why Citizen Kane Is The Most Important American Film Ever Made
Dan Mecca
The Film Stage
2·10·2009
Who Wrote ‘Citizen Kane’? It’s a Mystery Even if You Know the Answer
Owen Gleiberman
Variety
11·28·2020
What’s so good about Citizen Kane?
BBC
7·20·2015
What critics were saying when ‘Citizen Kane’ opened 75 years ago
Wellesnet
4·29·2016
Welles’ mesmerizing narrative on power induced corruption
Murtaza Ali Khan
A Potpourri of Vestiges
Welles, Toland and Citizen Kane
Harlan Lebo
American Society of Cinematographers
Welles Week: Five Shots from Citizen Kane
James Kreul
Madison Film Forum
1·22·2015
The most exciting film that has come out of Hollywood in twenty-five years’
C A Lejeune
The Guardian
5·12·1941
The Mark of Kane: Orson Welles’ masterpiece, 70 years on.
Nigel Andrews
Slate
Financial Times
5·8·2011
The Magician & The Media Baron
Edward Copeland
Edward Copeland's Tangents
5·1·2011
The Innovations of Citizen Kane
John H. Foote
Foote & Friends On Film
9·24·2018
The House is Not a Home: Comparing the Openings and Endings of Rebecca and Citizen Kane
H. Perry Horton
Film School Rejects
1·17·2017
The greatest contribution to cinema of all time
Patrick Ivers
Laramie Movie Scope
The Eternal Influence of ‘Citizen Kane’
Created by Fandor
5·2·2018
The Controversy Behind David Fincher’s Mank
Created by The Royal Ocean Film Society
11·30·2020
The Citizen Kane Mystery
Angeliki Coconi
Unsung Films
2·15·2014
The Cinema Behind Star Wars: Citizen Kane – From Rosebud to Podracing, these kid heroes had a lot in common.
starwars.com
6·22·2015
Strokes of Light and Shadow: The Impact of Citizen Kane
Wael Khairy
The Cinephile Fix
11·16·2009
Sound Citizen Kane Anatomy Of A Classic
Uploaded by ProfBowen
3·15·2015
Should I Watch..? ‘Citizen Kane’
Benjamin Cox
Reel Rundown
2·2·2020
Seven things you might be surprised to learn about Citizen Kane
BBC
1·11·2019
Seeing ‘Citizen Kane’ Again Now That I’m Older: The classic film, like life, looks different from the vantage point of age
Richard Chin
Next Avenue
6·10·2015
Screen Realism May Be A Little Too Real: “Citizen Kane” Breaks Away From Hollywood Cream Puff Glamour, But Rather Overdoes It
Trove
The Argus (Melbourne)
2·7·1942
Score For A Film; Composer Tells of Problems Solved in Music for ‘Citizen Kane’
Bernard Herrmann
The New York Times
5·25·1941
Sartre and Borges on Welles
Dan Piepenbring
The Paris Review
8·12·2014
Rosebud’ or the Illusion of Childhood Innocence in ‘Citizen Kane’
Marshall Deutelbaum
Academia
The Kingdom of Dreams in Literature and Film, 1986
1·1·1986
Raising Kane
DGA
DGA's Action magazine (May-June, 1969)
3·21·2006
Raising Kane
Pauline Kael
The New Yorker
2·13·1971
Raising Kael: On Pauline Kael’s Controversial Criticism of Citizen Kane
Alan Jacobs
Literary Hub
11·26·2019
Praising Kane
Richard Brody
The New Yorker
9·4·2012
Orson Welles’s tale of media magnate Charles Foster Kane’s will to power, excess and hubris has deep resonances today
Kate Muir
The Sunday Times
4·29·2016
Orson Welles’s Controversial ‘Citizen Kane’ Proves a Sensational Film at Palace
Bosley Crowther
The New York Times
5·2·1941
Orson Welles’ ‘Citizen Kane’ Is a Labyrinth Without a Centre
Carl Wilson
Pop Matters
10·23·2013
Orson Welles Talks About Making ‘Citizen Kane’
Created by The Dick Cavett Show
3·9·2019
Orson Welles on Citizen Kane
Uploaded by Doctor Zerkalo's Monitor Zone
Created by BBC
10·6·2015
Orson Welles explains the meaning of Rosebud in Citizen Kane
Wellesnet
8·5·2007
Orson Welles and the Drama Surrounding ‘Citizen Kane’
Brad Witter
biography.com
12·7·2020
Orson Welles and `Rosebud’ Ride Again: Film experts argue over the importance of `Citizen Kane’. Film Revival
David Sterritt
The Christian Science Monitor.
4·30·1991
Oh Welles
Mike Schindler, Max Hegel
Talk Film Society Podcast Network
Ep.1
9·23·2018
Mr. Welles’ ‘Citizen Kane’ Was Well Worth the Wait
Jay Carmody
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
Evening Star, Page B-16, Image 39
5·17·1941
Model Citizen
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
Martin Scorsese On Citizen Kane
Created by American Film Institute
9·8·2010
Making Sense of Citizen Kane
Otis Ferguson
The New Republic
6·2·1941
It Can’t Be Love, For There Is No True Love
Christianne Benedict
Krell Laboratories
11·12·2011
Is Citizen Kane still the greatest film of all time?
David Thomson
British Film Institute
Sight & Sound, January 2011 issue
11·13·2019
Is Citizen Kane still the greatest film ever made?
Matthew Sweet
The Telegraph
5·1·2016
Inside Xanadu: The breathtaking Californian castle of media tycoon William Hearst who inspired Orson Welles’ classic Citizen Kane
Louise Boyle
The Daily Mail
3·6·2012
I Missed It at the Movies: Objections to “Raising Kane”
Jonathan Rosenbaum
jonathanrosenbaum.net
Film Comment, Spring 1972
3·1·1972
How Donald Trump Totally Missed The Point Of “Citizen Kane” — And Won
Alison Willmore
BuzzFeed
11·11·2016
Herrmann Raises Kane!
Roger Hall
Center for American Music Preservation
5·1·1999
Herman Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, and the Battle Over “Citizen Kane”
Richard Brody
The New Yorker
11·14·2020
Hearst Over Hollywood
Michael Sage
The New Republic
2·24·1941
Harlan Lebo delves into differences between ‘Citizen Kane’ script, finished film
Ray Kelly
Wellesnet
11·10·2020
Every Kane in Citizen Kane
Created by Duncan Robson
2·10·2015
Donald Trump Modeled His Life on Cinematic Loser Charles Foster Kane
Anthony Audi
Literary Hub
10·26·2016
Desire, Narcissism and Crisis in Citizen Kane
Saiyeed Shahjada
Academia
Bangladesh Film Archive Journal,Issue - 15, Page: 121-125
1·1·2019
Cue rundown analysis of Bernard Herrmann’s historic first film score
Bill Wrobel
Film Score Rundowns
11·4·2001
Citizen Kane’: THR’s 1941 Review
THR Staff
The Hollywood Reporter
3·12·1941
Citizen Kane’ fave film of movie elite
Roger Ebert
rogerebert.com
8·11·2002
Citizen Kane’ Critics’ Picks
Created by The New York Times
3·15·2011
Citizen Kane’ at 70: The Legacy of the Film and Its Director
David W. Brown
The Atlantic
5·3·2011
Citizen Kane: The inadequacies of the ‘Rosebud’ ending
Stephanie Gajewski
Australian National University Press
Merici, Volume 1, 2015
Citizen Kane: Not the Greatest Movie Ever
Dan Geddes
The Satirist
4·2·2001
Citizen Kane: Isolation and the American Identity
Danielle Green
The Artifice
10·4·2017
Citizen Kane: How a box office bomb became a movie giant
Joel Rubinoff
The Toronto Star
5·27·2016
Citizen Kane: Crash Course Film Criticism #1
Created by Crash Course
1·11·2018
Citizen Kane Cinematography: Depth Through Light and Shadow
Created by Watch Meet Make
11·28·2016
Citizen Kane and the meaning of Rosebud
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
4·25·2015
Citizen Kane Analyzing Deep Focus
Created by Mohsin Abbas
2·23·2016
Cinematography Citizen Kane Anatomy Of A Classic
Uploaded by ProfBowen
3·15·2015
Childe Orson
John C. Mosher
The New Yorker
Print edition, May 3, 1941 Issue
Block or Die: Lessons from Orson Welles
Bryan W. Simon
No Film School
11·17·2016
Beyond “Citizen Kane”
David Haglund, Amelia Lester
The New Yorker / Out Loud Podcast
10·12·2015
Bernard Herrmann on working with Orson Welles and Citizen Kane
Wellesnet
6·24·2007
Being Orson: Why Citizen Kane Matters
Peter Bradshaw
BBC Radio 3
Ep.3
2·15·2017
Anatomy of a Scene: Citizen Kane
Bryan Young
Medium
3·15·2016
All the Citizen’s Men: Kane as Welles; also America
Robert Castle
Bright Lights Film Journal
7·31·2004
A Viewer’s Companion to ‘Citizen Kane’
Roger Ebert
rogerebert.com
1·1·2004
6 Ways to “Citizen Kane” Your Film
David Goodman
PremiumBeat
1·16·2017
20 inspired visual moments in Citizen Kane
Leigh Singer
British Film Institute
5·3·2016
1941: Citizen Kane: What Makes A Masterpiece?
Created by One Hundred Years of Cinema
12·30·2018
13 Classic Facts About Citizen Kane
Matthew Jackson
Mental Floss
9·5·2016
10 Movies That Had The Biggest Influences on ‘Citizen Kane’
Joshua Price
Taste of Cinema
8·15·2016
“The most auspicious debut film ever for a director.”
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
“Who really loves him for him?”
Paul Scheer, Amy Nicholson
Unspooled
Ep.1
5·16·2018
“Was it a person, a long lost love, or a coded message?”
Tom Gooderson-ACourt
At The Back
5·4·2013
“The greatest film of all time or merely one of the greatest?”
Dave James
SquabbleBox
8·21·2011
“The film’s famous, first murmured, echoed word is heard uttered by huge, mustached rubbery lips that fill the screen: R-o-s-e-b-u-d!”
Tim Dirks
AMC Filmsite
“Rosebud is the emblem of the security, hope and innocence of childhood…”
Roger Ebert
rogerebert.com
5·24·1998
“Rosebud at its most basic level is a metaphor for nostalgia…”
Created by Deep Focus Lens
5·17·2016
“Orson Welles’ story may have been as amazing as Kane’s himself.”
Sean Sweeney
Amoeba
9·2·2010
“More like Citizen Dick!”
Emily, Kevin, Seattle Sucks Podcast
Dead Beat Film Society
Ep.60
3·18·2019
“Kane is an American story.”
Carter B. Horsley
The City Review
“It’s unprecedented for it’s time.”
Created by Chris Stuckmann
11·30·2018
“I see this as a film about desire and the objects of desire, Kane’s ‘things.’ ”
Norman N. Holland
A Sharper Focus
“Everyone recognized Orson Welles’s Charles Foster Kane as a thinly veiled version of William Randolph Hearst, but…”
Anthony Bower
The Nation
12·22·2008
“Citizen Kane” Turns 77: Looking Back on a Classic
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
5·1·2018
“Citizen Kane’s very title has become a superlative.”
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films
“Citizen Kane’s accomplishment is, simply, that it achieves greatness whatever one’s perspective may be.”
Roger P. Smith
The Current
12·3·1984
“…Welles has a genius for conveying the private experience in the midst of public event.”
Richard T. Jameson
Parallax View
The Cinema of Orson Welles program note, Autumn 1971
10·5·1971
“…we still never really learned what made him the way he was.”
Maya, Toben
Cinema Covenant
Ep.100
1·20·2017
“…unable to buy friendship or love and, in the end, grasps onto the memories of a simpler time.”
Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
“…they wanted nothing to do with him in the end…”
JD Duran, Brendan Cassidy, Adam
InSession Film Podcast
1·23·2015
“…the pinnacle of Orson Welles’ film making career.”
James Berardinelli
Reelviews
“…the dark recesses of the soul are externally portrayed in expressionistic form…”
Martin Purvis
The Film Sufi
6·15·2013
“…something new and spectacular: a noir bio-pic.”
Alex Christensen
The Magic of the Movies
“…see it again and again to unravel all the narrative strands.”
Laura Boyes
Movie Diva
“…screen it as often as possible to the young, the curious, the intelligent…”
Derek Winnert
derekwinnert.com
7·6·2013
“…recast the role of director as an inspired visionary rather than a studio hack.”
Ace Black
The Ace Black Blog
10·1·2013
“…rampant materialism turn out to be nothing more than junk and ashes…”
Chris
Filmphest
“…one of the cinema’s authentic geniuses…”
Michael Walsh
Reeling Back
Province
6·14·1991
“…on some Freudian level all of Kanes problems in his life can be attributed to his separation from his mother.”
Jackass Tom
Jackass Critics
“…masterfully acted, bizarrely structured…”
James Blake Ewing
Creative Criticism
7·20·2016
“…Kane is a man desperate for love from everybody, but unable to offer it to anybody else.”
Richard Burns
I Liked That Film
8·26·2013
“…hollow and alone, a secret martyr to his shattered childhood.”
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
5·3·1991
“…financially successful, popular, powerful, and beautiful was and still is the main occupation of capitalists in America.”
Michaël Parent
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque
5·27·2011
“…an allegory of an everyman thrust into greatness.”
Brian Koller
Films Graded
5·23·2012
“…a refreshing cinematic novelty…”
John C. Flinn Sr.
Variety
4·16·1941
“…a memory that is largely reconstructed every time he thinks about it…”
Max Baril, Ted Walch
Classic Movie Musts
Ep.43
2·1·2019
“…a man who craves to be loved only to lose something far more valuable.”
Steven Flores
Surrender to the Void
1·26·2013
“…a film which I have in the past dismissed as dull, plodding and terribly over-rated.”
Edwin Davies
A Mighty Fine Blog
8·13·2007
“…a cinematic perfect storm of technique and sophistication…”
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films
“… an entire episode of ‘The Simpsons’ devoted to satirising this landmark in cinematic history.”
Ed Colley
Future Movies
7·20·2003
” ‘Rosebud’ is what Kane lost in pursuit of wealth, power, and stature.”
Ryan McDonald
Shameless Self Expression
Epinions 2009
5·26·2014
‘Citizen Kane’: The Astonishing Debut of Hollywood’s Greatest Wunderkind
Cinephilia & Beyond
‘Citizen Kane’ is superb: 1941 review
Kate Cameron
The New York Daily News
5·2·1941
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