The Greatest Film ever made?
A timeless classic, an unparalleled masterpiece, a visionary pioneer. Though often unheard or casually ignored by many movie fans of today, to almost all directors, critics, journalists unanimously, Citizen Kane is the most valuable piece of cinematic art. Why? Simply because it is Citizen Kane , a film that has single-handedly exerted greater influence in the history of cinema than anything else. Sounds too unreal? Well, by the time you finish reading this, it won’t anymore! (I hope!) This 1941 black & white movie directed by Orson Welles basically tells the story of world’s biggest media tycoon, Charles Foster Kane (a fictional character very loosely based on William Randolph Hearst)- his background, his rise to fame, his inevitable fall, his melancholic end. It’s very, very tough to squeeze 80 years of a man’s life into 2 hours, especially all the more so if that man never existed in the real world. And Citizen Kane does just that; and that too in a groundbreaking fashion. Bu