Wrong trailer, this was Meet Bill, not My Blueberry Nights

Citizen Kane has been lauded as the greatest motion picture to come out of America during the black-and-white era or any era, for that matter. The last word uttered by media magnate and multimillionaire tycoon, Charles Foster Kane, was "rosebud". During preparations for a newsreel story on Kane's life, the producers determine that they need to know the man more and send a A curious reporter, whose face we never see and whose shoulder we're always looking over to find out what the mysterious word means and through a series of flashbacks he finds out more about the megalomaniac. The reporter first spoke to Susan Alexander his second wife but now widowed ex-wife and ex-opera singer. She told them her story and experiences with Mr. Kane but didn?t get the information to answer the question. Great Movie

this is most definitely a 4 star film and a technological tour de force but it is also a lopsided and uneven example of story telling. the story line is/was not breaking new ground and the acting is/was not top of the line. wells put together a story long enough and barely interesting enough to display his new ideas of film making. remember that wells was only 24 or 25 when he made this film, and it shows. his ideas for camera technique are nothing short of amazing but his overall direction shows a 24 year old at work with some very fresh ideas. the story is held together with kanes last word and the search for the meaning behind it. the technilogical merit alone makes this a masterpiece (it could be viewed without sound and still have an impact) but it does not hit me like i expected it to. film, like art and music should strike you like a lightening bolt and move you. this film does not move me because it has no soul. technological ideas cannot replace the human element in anything, especially where emotions and feeling come into play. ultimately i feel that this film is like a vegetable we don't like; they might taste bad but they are good for you. do we really have to love this film or can we admire it for what it is?

Orson Welles is one of my favorite dramatists, and Citizen Kane, as his first movie is one my favorite films. It's wonderful, how it tracks the life of an aspiring buisnessman, and as we discover at the end, with all the headaches his work as chairman of the board has brought him over all his years in buisness, he's really come to miss his pleasent childhood, and especially his favorite sled, Rosebud. It's a shame that Hollywood dosen't make character studies like this anymore, and that they didn't show enough appreiciation for Welles' work even back then. That's why I hope the new generation of filmgoers can learn to be impressed with classics like this too. Viva Orson Welles.

I recently saw Citizen Kane for the first time. Having heard all my life how this was probably one of the greatest movies ever made, I was eager to rent a copy and find out for myself. Taken in the context of its time, I have no doubt Citizen Kane probably floored people with its forward-thinking film techniques and storytelling. But let?s face it- acting, cinematography, and screenplays have improved dramatically since then, and I was very disappointed. Several of the techniques used by Orson Wells such as odd camera angles, use of shadow and deep-focus are clearly novelties to the young film maker and they are used so obviously in some scenes that they become distracting. If you are an old movies fan, you probably won?t mind the campy acting and contrived script, but don?t expect anything nearly as engaging as what you?ll find in modern films. The story Citizen Kane is somewhat interesting and this movie certainly deserves a peek for its place in history, but I would never place it among the best films ever made.