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: A highly stylized and unique film experience
Summary: 4 Stars
Citizen Kane is certainly a unique film, a visual oddity of a film, with unique camera angles and surreal settings. The film just looks different from other films with its dark geometric interiors and camera shots that actually accentuate all the interior settings. It also is a unique story for it famously follows the life of William Randolph Hearst and is a commentary on that oversized powerhouse ego-maniac. The two female leads in the film, Ruth Warrick, playing first wife Emily Monroe Norton Kane, and Dorothy Comingore, playing second wife, Susan Alexander Kane, were extremely strong performances that were as different from each other as night and day. For Kane is one of those people who do not think the normal consequences of life apply to him. When he runs for public office while attacking his political opponent, he never seems to realize that the fact that he has a mistress will come to light and destroy his marriage and his political career. Kane relentlessly attacks career politician James Gettys, played by Ray Collins. But Gettys is a seasoned street fighter. He gets the goods on Kane and then carefully confronts him in a set up situation where both women are involved. Emily Kane shows tremendous grace in the face of defeat and humiliation. But then a life of hell starts for Susan Alexander Kane for she becomes the project of her husband who pushes her to sing and become an opera star. Susan Kane's speaking voice can peel paint off walls, a penetrating and grating high volume whine. When she and Charles Kane escape to his castle, the film becomes surreal, something out of Camus or Sartre, where people become each other's hell. Susan Kane's fall into alcoholism is tragic and yet totally expected. Joseph Cotton plays Jebediah Leland, Kane's best friend who sinks into alcoholism and obscurity in the shadow of his overpowering friend. Agnes Moorehead plays Mary Kane, the poor puritanical mother who gives up her son so that he might develop the sophistication to enjoy his wealth. I found the film to be very unique, highly entertaining and visually interesting.
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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