Citizen Kane Having success the first time around is very uncommon. Orson Welles's first feature film realizes the full potential of excellent craftsmanship. Citizen Kane is almost certainly the greatest achievement in the history of filming. In 1941, this film was considered by many as the best film ever made. This film is about the enormous conflict between two twentieth-century icons, publisher William Randolph Hearst and the prodigy of his time, Orson Welles. The rather overwhelming …showed first 75 words of 2377 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2377 total…a pioneering film that forever changed film making. Its plot is one of the most creative and original in all of movie history. The cinematography is stunning. Citizen Kane is about those images that we all reflect and project, the sum total of which -the impressions we make on other people- are all we that leave behind us. That central, unsolvable riddle of personality is at the core of what makes Citizen Kane so watchable.