I remember the very first time I saw Citizen Kane. It was last month. Thought it was pretty good. Definitely thought provoking.

Anyone who's worked for an Amazon fulfillment center knows this film has come true! What a prophetic masterpiece!!!

This is the greatest KZbin video I've ever seen.

The film wasn't well received at the time, but has since been named as their magnum opus, Mussolini was incensed when he saw (something that made the brothers extatic) i think everyone should watch ALL the marx brothers films, but pay particular attention to duck soup, look at ambassador Trentino, he seems to want war no matter what although comes across as if he's trying to avert it - groucho on the other hand is up front about his war - trentino even hires spies to get info on his opponent so he can use it as a precursor to war, not only a brilliant satire but still so hilarious.

You haven't seen CNN lately have you?

This is the inspiration of Johan and Peewit.

When animation was made with pure talent. Not the fake 3d computer stuff today.

This channel is amazing, hoping you are okay and could maybe continue this series some day.

Love the channel God bless brother

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i feel like all of tactics used the other movies before had the same effect. the real reason citizen kane is important is because they used all of them together, to CONSISTENTLY add depth to scenes.

1931 Wow ! This would be a good use for AI, to redo the voices in english, and other languages, with the voice tones of the original actors. Great early coverage of the insanity plea. If he were blinded he wouldn't have those thoughts ?

*CNN and MSNBC have entered the chat.*

All those kino wannabes said Joker just remade taxi driver but it really remade this

Made it grow up

You know what I really loved and appreciated Stigmata!

J̌ames Cagney is the 🐐. I can watch old gangster movies all day.

Better to have an working dictatorship which does everything in the interest of the common man (Like National Socialist Germany), than have a democracy which usually only benefits one small minority. In the future Europe will have dictatorships which will work for the common good of the people of that nation, because us young people are waking up to the reality and do not believe in the orchestrate show of democracy.

A great full version of Metropolis here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioTZh2ifeaujZpI

I knew about the X symbolism from The Departed but was surprised to see it came from Scarface. Love how Rinaldo live in apartment X to further foreshadow his death or how the beginning of the movie started with an X

So many lovely Easter eggs that are hidden in this amazing film that don’t stand out on first viewing. One of my favorites is how meeting Susan circumvents a chance that Kane encounters, or rediscovers Rosebud. He tells her he was on his way to look through some belongings that were shipped from his mother’s place, and he going there on a “sentimental journey”. But meeting her prevents him from going. We don’t really know if he ever followed through. But in away she temporarily was Rosebud because that night we see him for the last time full of play and wonder. Struck that she could like him while not knowing who he was. The reveal at the end makes their meeting so heartbreaking in retrospect. He wasn’t longing explicitly looking for rosebud at the time as far as we can tell. But he found what it really meant as fleeting as it was. Later when Geddes exposed his “affair” it’s hinted that there time together wasn’t even a physical affair, but an emotional one. And once that embarrassment is revealed she becomes just another possession and crusade (crusader being the name of the new sled Thatcher gifts him) as he attempts to take the quotes of her being a “singer”.

Thanks very much 😅

The water ripples in the well.....to achieve that quality of realism in traditional animation in 1937.......LEGENDS!!!!!

I'd go with Out of tbe Past as the quintessential film noir.

I think Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" is woefully underrated... the colors, the 'fantastical realism', the Cheshire Cat's cagey comedy. pls do a video on that movie

Beautiful, amazing way to engage this topic and film. Thank you so much!!!

You really do need to view both bad and good stuff to understand why anything is either both good and bad. Which is way a few months after I first watched Citizen Kane I understood it better... because I watched Battlefield Earth... something where the only reason to watch it is bragging rights that you actually endured it. But at least I was able to get a deeper understanding of why something is good, that being it has none of the thigs Battlefield Earth has.

Loved your content, really aided me in my journey of discovering cinema. Sad that you stopped making it.

I don’t think he’s coming back guys.

Wished I saw this commentary when I was growing up in the 80s...I would have appreciated Cartoons way more.

I think Bernard Herrmann’s music in Citizen Kane is one of the key reasons it’s so effective. The way the music changes when we go back to Kane’s childhood home in the snow is so evocative it sends shivers down my back every time

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Thank goodness we can return to your fine presentation as the Rachel Zegler trashfire explodes well before completion. THANK YOU.

Both DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN are iconic masterworks to be sure, but DRACULA is the one I revisit more often. Everything about it has a haunting eerieness that keeps drawing me back to it.😊

A Trip to Mars, 1918 is an even earlier science fiction masterpiece for those interested

Just saw a screening of this movie yesterday in Germany. It was a restoration made in 2023. I was astonished by how good the movie looks now.

❤ What is the name of the background music at the beginning of the video?😮

Che filmone.

Always come back to this channel, hope you are doing well

Movies are at their very best when the music and imagery dazzle your eyes and imagination. Sometimes it's a piece of dialogue you remember, but this visual/musical harmony is what we remember most. In my opinion.

There's a story about Casablanca....in the 1970's a group of film students from UCLA wanted to know if Casablanca could be made again. So they took the actual script (renamed "Everyone Comes to Rick's" a dead giveaway since that was the play upon which the script was based) and shopped it around to various studios. Not one studio recognized it, and even hints such as "we could get actors like, say, Humphrey Bogart or Ingrid Bergman" it was met with rejection. Finally one young guy in a film studio flipped through it and said "This is the script from Casablanca, what are you trying to pull?" When the story was revealed he was dumbfounded. His reply was "That's impossible! Everyone studies scripts in film school, Casablanca along with all the classics like Citizen Kane, Wizard of Oz, and others. No one recognized this script?"

This movie was one of the biggest gambles of its time, and Disney drove himself to near-bankruptcy trying to make it, not sure if it would ever be a success. 87 years later, the Disney execs think "Hey, it'll be easy and quick to make, and make a lot of money really fast."

This is so useful snd pleasurable, it quite brings back student days of happy lectures and renewed discovery. Some of Eisenstein's genius I had, dare I say, almost come to take for granted. Thanks.

I wrote a paper in college, discussing Stagecoach on one end and The Shootist on the other for an American Film class I took. It was a lot of fun to write and a lot of fun to research, and I didn't even like John Wayne flicks when I started the class. Film can do that to you.

Glad I Found It as a Used DVD. Great Movie.

I thought the story was ok but the bird jumpscare is kinda goated and some of the cinematography is really creative.

Great video!

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The pace of this film blew me away, I had never seen a movie by the Marx brothers. So many jokes spat out so quickly, nonstop, my 2024 brain had a hard time keeping up; I'm mind blown at the fact that it came out almost a hundred years ago. Great video on the film, by the way, I love this channel!!