“Its surface is as much fun as any movie ever made. Its depths surpass understanding...”
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.' In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. With a cast made up out of Welles’s Mercury Theatre company (seeing screen debuts for Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane and Agnes Moorehead), a score by Bernard Hermann, and the beautifully rich cinematography of Gregg Toland, Citizen Kane is not just a classic of groundbreaking cinematic technique, it’s also an absolute blast of pure entertainment from start to finish.
