Oddly, all these efforts may have helped build additional hype around Kane. For journalists and critics writing about the movie at least, for non-Hearst publications , there was some urgency in making sure that readers knew that the film was, you know, good. Back then, the Hollywood majors actually owned most of the screens in the country, a fact which had helped power the rise of the studio system.
Seven years later, after a landmark anti-trust case brought about by the U. This helped precipitate the gradual decline of the studio system and the eventual rise of the Film Brat Generation … led by directors who worshipped Citizen Kane and Orson Welles and who would ultimately transform the industry.
They even tried to get him arrested: Welles recounted that during a lecture tour in Buffalo, New York, he was warned at dinner one night not to go back to his hotel, as there was a year-old girl and a couple of Hearst photographers waiting in his room for him.
But what America dismissed, Europe embraced. After World War II, Kane began to make its way across the formerly war-torn corners of the continent. Along the way, it became a phenomenon. Indeed, Truffaut noted how poorly it had been subtitled in French. Still, it took some time for Kane to become a consensus favorite. In early , a referendum of around filmmakers was held in Brussels to determine the best movies of all time. There was barely any mention of Kane there, either on the final list or among the runners-up.
Where To Watch Online. However, one movie title is listed as the greatest movie of all time more than any other, often to the consternation of film fans who cannot work out what the title's hype is about.
While the Rosebud resolution has become so well-known it's used as reference point for spoiled twists in movies, it's telling that the impact of the reveal scene isn't tarnished one bit. W Griffith, and George Melies. However, Citizen Kane was the earliest mainstream movie to combine this diverse panoply of borrowed techniques in service of an accessible story, melding together disparate styles to form a cohesive — but at the time, incredibly innovative — whole. Archive All posts by date.
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