Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
For decades, critics have ranked Citizen Kane (1941) among the greatest films ever made. Its director, Orson Welles, was only 25. The film tells the life of a press tycoon, Charles Foster Kane, and asks a simple question: can you ever really know a man?
Beyond the plot, Welles invented a new language. He mixed the techniques of silent film and sound film to talk about power, loneliness, and memory.
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- 2The prodigy who got every right
- 3Deep focus changes the way we look
- 4Rosebud, or the impossible investigation
- 5A cursed film, then a model
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary8 terms explained in a tap.
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