Citizen Kane [VHS]
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Actor: Fortunio Bonanova, Georgia Backus, Ray Collins, Sonny Bupp, William AllandPrimary Contributor: Joseph Cotten
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Special Edition
Running Time: 119 minutes
Release Date: 1996-08-13
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: RKO Radio Pictures
Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
VHS Movie Reviews of Citizen Kane [VHS]
Movie Review: All Around Great
Summary: 4 Stars
For all the baggage that Citizen Kane is bagged with, it's pretty remarkable that underneath, the hype (Citizen Kane tops the list of AFI's greatest films of all time, on both editions), the hate, and opposing view points about it, Citizen Kane is really a good movie. Make no mistake, in my opinion, Citizen Kane is not the best movie of all time, but that's not it's fault some people scrutnize it because of those biased film geeks at the American Film Institure (though it certainly has more of it's virtues than a magazine like Rolling Stone does) It is one of the most innovative, however, and I won't deny the importance of the movie.
The filmaking on this is very good, and it only helps to enchance the movie (please tell me if the Rosebud line would be as interesting if it wasn't close up). The special effects, camera shots, make-up, music, sttucture, this is all a part of FILM-MAKING, so in my opinion, it is important. Sorry a customer, I prefer to stay in the first camp, because that camp is important and knows the virtues of the said film-making (please regard, that while I feel that film-making affects how a movie can be presented, a compelling story is the most important thing, and no, I don't mind that people don't like this movie. It's someone elses opinion).
So the special effects and film-making are excellent, but the story beneath it? It's interesting, and gives some ponderous thoughts. While I thought the sled metaphor was pretentious, watching Kane self-destruct from happiness and optimism from bitter old man is eeirrely prophetic and relevant in these days. It also shows that indeed, money can't buy happiness. Once you get a look at that absolutely insane (in spite of itself, it's a neat estate) estate inside, it just seems so empty. And Kane and his wife are as empty as flowerpots. Oh sure, that moralizing is pretty evident, but showing it onscreen and actually watching it only makes the event even more satisfying. It's like a parent taping their kid for crying in a toy store in order to show the boy just how pathetic he looks in the act of doing so.
Is Citizen Kane, in my opinion, the best film of all time? No! Most definitely not. It will never be a personal favorite to me, but Citizen Kane, for the right camp, will satisfy mightly. Please ignore everyone else and whatever anybody tells you and like it for how you like it. There is no other way in life in figuring out what you like.
Summary of Citizen Kane [VHS]
Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known easily. Welles plays newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. The result is that every well-meaning or tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event. Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and photographed by Gregg Toland, the film is the sum of Welles's awesome ambitions as an artist in Hollywood. He pushes the limits of then-available technology to create a true magic show, a visual and aural feast that almost seems to be rising up from a viewer's subconsciousness. As Kane, Welles even ushers in the influence of Bertolt Brecht on film acting. This is truly a one-of-a-kind work, and in many ways is still the most modern of modern films from the 20th century. --Tom KeoghDrama VHS Video
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