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Citizen Kane
noun
- an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.
Example Sentences
And the Oscar goes to: āCitizen Kaneā won a single Oscar, for original screenplay.
āWhereas most other producers in the indie space are looking for stuff thatās very squarely genre, or kind of like the elevator pitch makes a ton of sense from a commercial standpoint ... this just felt like āCitizen Kane.ā
Youāre dead certain that at some point, someone must have come up with the elevator pitch that this is āCitizen Kaneā from the perspective of Xanaduās interior designer.
Ben Mankiewicz, the host of Turner Classic Movies and the grandson of āCitizen Kaneā co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz, narrates the documentary, which features archival images and video clips.
Did Orson Welles get too much glory for āCitizen Kaneā? Absolutely, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael insists in this novella-length fire-starter about the making of the greatest movie of all time.
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