Citizen Kane: AFI’s #1 Pick
December 27th, 2006 Posted in Film, Cultural District
Photo credit: American Film Institute
From Film Notes on Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Barbara Vancheri
Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ year will close with the No. 1 pick on the American Film Institute list along with new prints of classics from Werner Herzog and Jean Renoir.
“Citizen Kane,” (1941) the top movie on the AFI’s list of greatest films, plays through Saturday, December 30, at the Harris Theater, Downtown.
Director Martin Scorsese once said the picture made 25-year-old Orson Welles “responsible for inspiring more people to be film directors than anyone else in the history of cinema.” It will screen at 5:30 and 7:45 p.m. on Thursday, at 8 p.m. December 29, and 5:30 and 8 p.m. Dec. 30.
Synopsis from AFI:
From its Gothic opening at looming Xanadu to its legendary final line, this is the most electrifying directorial debut in screen history, named by AFI as the greatest movie of the 20th Century (number 1 on AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies list) and an acknowledged inspiration to a variety of filmmakers. As brilliant and startling today as in 1941, it remained both Orson Welles’s masterpiece and his nemesis. “More fun than any great movie I can think of”-Pauline Kael. Directed/produced/written by Orson Welles; co-written by Herman J. Mankiewicz. US, 1941, b&w, 119 min.
One Response to “Citizen Kane: AFI’s #1 Pick”
By jr on Jun 22, 2007
wish could see the full movie