My 1,000th film marked on this site ever since I joined, now over a year ago. I knew for such an occasion it had to be something special. Something important. Something, epic.

Then I thought of one film, THE film, I still have yet to see. What have many described as the greatest film ever made. The one that changed the landmark of cinema. The one that still influences film making to this very day. Orson Welles', "Citizen Kane".

A film that has been talked about for decades now. Highly regarded as the true peak of its medium. Something that most filmmakers have seen, studied, and deconstructed for years on end, now being viewed by a teenager in Long Island.…

I’m not naïve enough to think that I have anything new to offer in my entirely unnecessary ode to Citizen Kane, but I'll continue writing this anyway because I like writing about films, and Citizen Kane is a film, all right, and a Towering Masterpiece of Cinema at that. I’d have to be exceedingly smart or exceedingly stupid to dispute that, and I reckon I fall somewhere in between.

Pulling apart Citizen Kane shot by shot is more than enough to learn how to make a film, but pulling apart the film's circular structure is also a brilliant way to learn how to tell a story. Since I attempt to write, it's the narrative structure of Citizen Kane that interests…

Citizen Kane is the motion picture which, since its release, has been widely regarded by almost all critics, filmmakers & even many viewers around the world as the greatest film of all time. And although I agree to some extent that, purely on a technical scale, this might be the most influential picture ever made but based solely on its plot & story, there are far better examples in cinema than this one.

Still, there is no denying that Citizen Kane is a boldly crafted feature which not only defied all the typical methods of filmmaking that were in use at its time of production but also ended up completely rewriting the manuals of filmmaking in the process. The film tells the…

Charles Foster Kane, an iconic newspaper baron, utters, “Rosebud”, just before he dies, and reporters scramble to find the meaning of this cryptic final word. Through a series of flashbacks, we are shown pivotal events in Kane's life, including his poverty-stricken Colorado childhood, his entry into the newspaper business by way of “yellow journalism”, his rise up the ladder of the trade as he marries a U.S. President's niece, his campaign for governor of New York, his divorce due to an affair, his failed remarriage, and his final stretch of life in his mansion.

The 1941 Orson Welles classic, Citizen Kane, is like an amusement park of various visual innovations, and there's something to marvel at during each and every…

watching this movie feels like running laps

at the beginning, you're like "maybe this won't be so terrible, I'm feeling fine" but in a bit you start to feel it. you try to remain open minded– "maybe this will help me improve myself". just over halfway in, you feel like you might die and it's not even that close to being over. near the end you're like "please just end already", yet it drags on. as it finally ends, you think to yourself, "why the fuck did I just have to go through that". but wait– you're supposed to be open minded! you're a better, more educated and well-rounded person now that you've experienced it! no pain no gain 

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