Dir. by Orson Welles | 1941 | 119 mins | PG
Lauded as the #1 GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!
When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s (Orson Welles) dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights. Though Kane’s friend and colleague Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), and his mistress, Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore), shed fragments of light on Kane’s life, the reporter fears he may never penetrate the mystery of the elusive man’s final word, “Rosebud.”
REVIEWS
“An ecstasy of light and shadow, of clashing textures and graphic forms, such as hadn’t been seen since the silent era”
The New Yorker
“It can be classified as, in a number of aspects, one of the most arresting pictures ever produced”
Los Angeles Times
“What’s striking now is how utterly modern it is in structure”
The Times
