Citizen Kane: The Greatest Film Ever Made?

This movie is cold, yes, but saying you can't connect on a human level is crazy. Watching Rosebud go into the flames at the end, I immediately saw young Charles Foster Kane riding Rosebud in the snow, a life on innocenece and simplicity before him. That didn't happen. I feel that just as much as I feel Michael Corelone's pain as he sits at his compound in on Lake Tahoe at the end of Godfather Part II, I feel it the same way I feel Jake Gittes as he once again finds himself in Chinatown. Kane is a great work of art, one of the all-time greats, and not just for the camerawork either.

 

Orson Welles talks at length about Kane. Very interesting interview.

Orson Welles interviewed on March 13, 1960

 

Citizen Kane is the greatest film that Orson Welles ever made, no debate there.

Best film ever? That will always be debatable, as will any other film that the title is attached to by somebody.

 

Kazaam! is the greatest film ever made. Admit it. All of you... admit it.

 

Well, it was no Steel.....

I'll say that

 

wow... I've never read anything more ignorant than that statement in my life...

 

Orson Welles can be trusted on nothing; he loved telling stories, not necessary non-fiction.

It's a very great film, but taste is subjective.

I agree that it's certainly the greatest he ever made.

 

I regard Orson's talent as a given, it's a shame he never developed any political skills. It might have saved him. And a couple of his movies too.

Hard-headed determination can be a wonderful and necessary thing, but at a certain point banging your head into a brick wall has to hurt.

 

The greatest film of its era? Undoubtedly.

The greatest film of all time? No. That honor would go to Hitchcock's Vertigo and Coppola's Godfather saga.

If for nothing else, I honor CK for being the cinematic inspiration for the greatest film of the 90s, Oliver Stone's Nixon.

 

The interesting thing is: we move on. In the 1960 lists, a lot of the 'best ever' films were silent.

 

I would love to read any thoughts you, or anyone else, might have on Vertigo. It's a film I never get tired of reading about.

 

Is Citizen Kane Really the Greatest American Movie Of All Time

 

After reading the article above, it inspired a thought in my head. What would a director's commentary of Citizen Kane by Orson Welle's have been like?
Can you imagine two hours of that voice commenting on his seminal film? Wow.

 

Yes I can.

Unfortunately a lot of it is anecdotes about frozen peas.