have you seen citizen kane?

Question

did you like it?
and how do you write a film review?

Answer 1

ofcourse!!

CITIZEN KANE isn't my single favorite film, but it is one of them, and if it isn't the greatest film of all time, what is? CASABLANCA, GONE WITH THE WIND and THE WIZARD OF OZ are certainly fine films--perhaps great films--but I cannot place them on the same level as CITIZEN KANE.

CITIZEN KANE is a film that one can call great without feeling stupid about it. To its disciples, it is nothing less than the Bible for film-making. There is no doubt that in 1941 Orson Welles created a masterpiece that would be copied by many but equaled by none. Creatively, it is the most influential single film ever made.

With this movie Orson Welles added more to the vocabulary of film-making than any other director had done before or has done since. The unusual narrative patterns, shock cuts, deep focus, eccentric camera angles, the exaggerated soundtrack foreshadowed the techniques that would come into widespread use over the years. It's doubtful that any "good" director has not be influenced somewhat by CITIZEN KANE.

Although the themes which form the foundation of CITIZEN KANE are serious, Orson Welles' directorial style is jaunty and at times rather haphazard, so that the film is never sanctimonious. This may be one key as to the longevity of its reputation. There is hardly anything that Welles doesn't try. His movie is beguiling, and the apparent lightness of touch nevertheless smashes the serious points through with even more power. Welles is a daredevil filmmaker, and one can almost imagine his saying on the set, "Well, let's see what we can do differently today, and let's see how much fun we can have doing it." CITIZEN KANE is about the attractions of wealth and power and the emptiness of the lives of those who attain wealth and power. It says that even those who reach the top are so ill-equipped to deal with the life there that there is no course for them except destruction. Because the movie deals with the exploding myths about the American dream, it is the great American tragic epic rendered to film. Its effect is overpowering because it can touch all of us.

The movie is full of great scenes which have contributed some unforgettable and admirable moments to the library of world cinema. Orson Welles is more a scientific technician than an actors' director, yet the film is full of beautifully wrought performances, by Agnes Moorehead as Kane's mother who loses her son to the high life at an early age; by Ruth Warrick as the wife so unaccustomed to Kane's outrageous whims that soon she learns to fight back in subtle silence; and by Dorothy Comingore as the pathetic mistress for whom Kane tries vainly to build a singing career.

As for Welles himself, he gives a masterful performance in front of the camera as well as behind. In the course of the film he must age from his early twenties to his mid-sixties, and he fills in each epoch of the character's life with the utmost power and verisimilitude. From creative, ambitious young manhood to surfeited, emotionally withered old age (mid-sixties was old in 1941, not so today), Welles makes Kane one of the screen's most unforgettable characters.

This is obviously Orson Welles' movie, but still CITIZEN KANE could not be the effervescent experience it is without the aid of the consummate craftsmen working with him. The cinematography by Gregg Toland is remarkably fluid, inventive, and consistently breathtaking. There were two editors for the film, Mark Robson and Robert Wise, each of whom went on to become important film directors in their own right. The music is a marvelous creation by Bernard Herrmann, whose hypertensive chords foretell doom and death. The art direction presents a Xanadu that is impressive beyond belief.

If you haven't seen CITIZEN KANE, give it a chance. If you have seen it and didn't like it, give it another chance. My first exposure to it in my early 20s wasn't exactly fortuitous. I found it rather hard to follow and seriously considered turning it off, but I stuck with it. The next time, a few years later, was better. Having remembered many of the famous scenes, I found myself looking forward to them and putting them within the context of the story. By the third time I was totally immersed in the story, the characterizations, the brilliant technique. One of the things I like about CITIZEN KANE is that it honestly gets better as it goes along; it never runs out of fuel. In 1981 when I first started collecting CED discs, this was the first film I ordered. Watching it recently for perhaps the fortieth time, I realized the movie was half over and there were still many classic, magnificent sequences left. If I live to see the movie that many more times, I'm sure I'll be considering: if this isn't the greatest movie ever made, I can't think of another one that comes this close.

Answer 2

I HATED it don't know why it's always the critics #1 movie of all time. Go here http://www.imdb.com/ and Register.
Then go here and write you're review.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/ Scroll down to where it says. I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it.

Answer 3

no
its a great movie