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Derek Malcolm's rating
Innovations aplenty in Citizen Kane
By
Derek Malcolm
30 Oct 2009
Is this the greatest film of all time? It is certainly the most stunning debut, made by Orson Welles at the tender age of 25 in 1941.
It is almost impossible to count the innovations that have become a staple of the cinema, including Gregg Toland’s deep-focus cinematography.
William Randolph Hearst, the powerful newspaper baron upon whom Kane (played by Welles himself) was based, was infuriated by the film and saw to it that it was a box-office flop.
But to revisit it now is still to marvel at its wit, audacity and sheer entertainment value.
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