The Best Movie Ever Made | Citizen Kane

[@TheKinoCorner]

A couple notes: People did know about the subject of Citizen Kane before it released, which prompted Hearst into trying to strong-arm RKO into not making the film. However, Kane wouldn't show journalists the making of the movie. At one point, he invited journalists to witness the shooting of a scene, only to take them to a cocktail party instead. Still, I think it's a different story when the film isn't made and only exists as a script. When the film was completed, and people liked it, well, that is very threatening. Finally, I know that people like to joke that Welles' first film was his best and it was all downhill from there, but I seriously love The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, F for Fake, and The Other Side of the Wind. I consider Welles to be the first big indie film director and his post-Kane career is even more interesting than the story surrounding Kane. It's just Citizen Kane, like its titular character, holds such a monumental presence that its shadow over Welles. Anyway, I'd love to hear what you all think about Citizen Kane! Do you hate it or love it? Somewhere in between? Have you seen Mank? What did you think? Let me know!

[@apollocobain8363]

Nicely done. "Citizen Kane" is one of many famous films on which the Director was given "final cut" meaning that the studio could not make changes. It pre-dates the era of the auteur by 3 decades and much of the auteur thing is hype. Some very unique films have come from Directors who were given final cut or carte blanche to make a film they wanted to make without committee decisions and second guessing. Notable final cut films include Tim Burton's semi-autobiographical "Edward Scissorhands" (1990) where Burton got use his childhood idle Vincent Price to play the fatherly figure. It was Price's last live action performance in a feature film, ending one of the most prolific careers in Hollywood history. Burton likewise got to use Danny Elfman to compose the soundtrack. Another great final cut film came about by accident. The makers of the documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop" partnered with street artists and lured Banksy into a deal. Banksy closely guards his identity so he would not agree to do the film unless he had final cut -- he wound up finishing that film himself. Lastly, in your first paragraph you have "However, Kane wouldn't show..." -- you want 'Welles' there.

[@steveparadis2978]

Believe Welles himself said that his best film was "Chimes At Midnight". He may be right.

[@DanielRobertKane]

Where's part 2

[@The_Notorious_N.O.E.]

It's already been a year but I would love to see a part two to this video.

[@jayxavier7357]

You probably should mention that the Bogdanovich article was ghost written by Welles -- as per Jonathan Rosenbaum -- all the more ironic, given it was an intervention in a dispute on the authorship of Kane.

[@PatrickWDunne]

Fun Fact: Two of David Fincher's favorite movies are Citizen Kane and Chinatown. Fincher directed Mank and is working on a Chinatown prequel for Netflix.

[@TheKinoCorner]

Is Fincher the king of the Hollywood fan fiction market at the moment?

[@shruk4]

Imagine having the ability to do anything and doing shitty companion pieces that exploit your favourite movies

[@arbaaz9992]

@@shruk4imagine being one of the most influential modern directors today that shaped a generation and made movies that are still qouted to this day.

[@bigbillyc9878]

Dude, hit that part 2

[@Damonistique]

Just watched Citizen Kane and found it layers of beautifully done. Thank you for the information about its background, it will be a delight to see part 2!

[@DanielS-gv5nj]

Citizen Kane truly is the "The Room" of great movies.

[@danwroy]

Ah wat

[@xi7837]

@@danwroy The room is most commonly called the worst film of all time it tries to take the viewer into the mind of deeply depressed man but ends up just being so god awful it becomes funny

[@monolith94]

Welles wasn’t completely green as a filmmaker when he made Kane. He made a short little silent film that was rediscovered

[@steveparadis2978]

Bernard Herrmann, 1973: " I think the greatest thing that ever happened to Herman Mankiewicz, whatever his contribution, was that he met Welles, not the other way round. If Welles hadn't created Kane, he would have made some other equally remarkable picture. Mankiewicz's credits don't show any other remarkable scripts. His only moment in the sun was when he came across Orson Welles. . . . You know, most screenwriters of the period were 'the Great American Novelist' being whores and hoping for better things. They were always about to write a great novel or great play while demeaning themselves with movie writing. I was at a party at William Dieterle's house which Thomas Mann attended. One of these writers, quite drunk, came up to him and said something like 'How could a wonderful writer like you even talk to miserable whores like us?' Mann looked at him and said, 'My dear sir, you are not big enough to make yourself so small.'

[@randybailin4902]

Only the audience knows what Rosebud was. The interesting question is who heard Kane say Rosebud in the first place? He died alone and the nurse then enters the room.

[@TPDProductions]

I absolutely love the style of this video! Please make some more videos on classic Hollywood!

[@errwhattheflip]

Citizen Kane is such a god damn masterpiece. The story structure, script, phenomenal cinematography, characters, acting, etc. are all at the highest possible level. While I don't personally consider it the greatest movie of all time, it's no doubt one of them

[@dubbelhenke854]

Right. It is admirably well done, never boring - a masterpiece but I have it on my 20 best list all time. Perhaps no 15.

[@Anish23420]

My guy, you deserve more than 11k subs! This was riveting asf and it actually made me appreciate Citizen Kane more as a movie!

[@bunny.thebest9103]

The greatest piece of film art ever made. I love that you used 2001 music. It's a great video explains so much about the film.

[@PolishGod1234]

2001 is the best film art ever made

[@SlushTV]

Wow Kino you knocked this out of the fucking park, incredible job. DEFINITELY your best KZbin video yet!

[@Gokanaru]

p2 pls

[@MitchellHammond]

Hit us up with that part 2 king

[@Idle_Koala]

Your content is getting really good

[@Jared_Wignall]

Fantastic video man. Keep up the great work!

[@bobbest1611]

17:35 that story came only from orson welles. he was notorious for telling tall tales and i think that was one of them.

[@insanejughead]

Wow! Very well deconstruction of history's more magnificent creations!

[@WillN2Go1]

Muslin ceilings is what the silent studios did to soften sunlight and diffuse shadows (so they didn't move around the shot as seconds of screen time took hours to shoot.) Cinematographers and lighting techs would've been used to it at the time. (The part of it in the frame is usually lighted through (to the set and actors) it would be too bright. ) "Cinematic feeling' doesn't mean much. The shallow depth of field allowed the focus point to be moved around the frame directing the audience where to look. 'A' could say something to B , but when the focus shifts to C, we understand they were talking about something C was connected to. Deep focus allowed for different methods. A passive character in the frame might suddenly move and say something. Our view shifts to them, but the camera doesn't change focus or move. It's not bad, just different. It works more like it would on stage. Citizen Kane is a masterpiece. When I was a kid and you could see most old Hollywood movies on TV, I don't think Citizen Kane was ever broadcast in the 60s and 70s. I used to see Orsen Welles across the street from a gallery I used to do work at. He was getting in or out of his Rolls Royce to eat lunch at Ma Maison, which in the 1980s was in a small house on Melrose Avenue, in Los Angeles.

[@dylanstandingalone]

When I was younger I thought it was just an old meme when people said Citizen Kane was the best movie ever. Now I'm older, with a lot more experience, and CK devastated me the first and second times I watched it. I can't think of many other movies offhand that bring you through an experience like that.

[@bluesentaiproductions]

Definitely a film with the greatest back story. Like a lot of films in its time its greatness stems from everything else coming together whether it was Tolands cinematography or Herrmanns score it weaved everything else together to give it a unique identity. It's story with Hearst aside is a complex study on how a good man can become a villain, and broken. Something I feel most people who want entertainment seem to get annoyed with in this film. It's not trying to tell a bfable, or end happily ever after, it's cinema

[@Mandibil]

Love the typewriter, the cool jazz & smoking :-) ... Adds an authentic, throwback atmosphere :-)

[@BugVlogs]

I would love for you to do a video on The Magnificent Ambersons!!

[@do9138]

One of the finest movies ever made cost $15.5 million in current dollars. The venue that U2 will perform in in Las Vegas in September has already cost $3.2 BILLION.

[@ssp8492]

A part 2 would still be cool

[@ScottishTank907]

I'd love to see a part 2 to this, it's genuinely great!

[@ferociousgumby]

I have read that the War of the Worlds panic was WAY exaggerated in the popular press. Not that many people were fooled.

[@largervoid1708]

CITIZEN KANE, BEST FILM EVER. PERIOD.

[@PeaceChanel]

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[@ferociousgumby]

Thanks for the advertisement. This is just the place for it!

[@laurasedor4641]

Now infamous Kenosha Wisconsin?

[@mercedyzmarieguion292]

I caught that I don't understand the comment Good analysis though.

[@MG-fv4oj]

3 years late but he’s referring to the Kyle Rittenhouse situation.

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Citizen Kane really does stand up brilliantly, amazing achievement for its time. I would still have it in my top 10 of all time alongside movies like Goodfellas and The Matrix.

[@mikestion4629]

All's Welles that ends Welles.

[@SteveTheFazeman]

You made some very interesting points regarding the success and controversy this film had to those within the industry and those outside of it.

[@alexcayarga9339]

Great video and info. Love this movie and it's my 4th favorite of all time.

[@DanielRobertKane]

Is there a part 2?

[@shruk4]

The Pauline Kael essay is fabulistic and provably wrong. it was part of her general attack on auteur theory. It seems quite ridiculous that David Fincher presumes that Pauline Kael's telling of the story would be correct, but also fitting. He is such an automaton so he cant phantom someone as great as Orson Welles actually having ideas and implementing them. History will remember Orson, David Fincher, not so much.

[@TheKinoCorner]

Pauline Kael was the Moviebob of the 70s

[@shruk4]

@@TheKinoCorner lol

[@zenevb9829]

well done, you had many great points in this video.

[@The_Notorious_N.O.E.]

It's already been a year but I would love to see a part two to this video.

[@bobp2389]

Greatest film? Maybe start with Marion Davies 1929 "Marianne" and 1934 "Operator 13" - A woman decades before her time - apparently saw Sarah Bernhardt, and contemporaries Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Mary Pickford - and later actresses must have emulated Davies - almost all of the Greatest Generations Actresses Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Jennifer Jones, Elinor Powel, Deanna Durbin, Greer Garson and others.

[@Nanu67-e9j]

Cinematroghy is asoblutely georgous in this movie...

[@floydblandston108]

'Best' is usually genre dependent, but if you needed to choose a GOAT, 'Citizen Kane' is a good one- it still holds up.

[@canofcoke7999]

Great video, I really enjoyed it and thought it was very interesting

[@mandobrownie]

I feel like kind of a dick for leaving a comment like this, but the music under your voiceover was really distracting. Maybe it wasn't for others and I'm just a spaz, but it was both kind of high in the mix for me and the specific tracks had too much melodic and harmonic info. My aural attention kept being pulled toward the tracks. Still a good video though, learned a lot!

[@vaneyck8186]

Perfect Videography,quite good Videography

[@zer0tzer0]

I think you should do a video on Welles last movie, 'The Other Side Of The Wind'.

[@Sjrick]

What were you trying to convey holding an unlit cigarette ?

[@flyingo]

Kane is definitely in the top group of films, but find and watch “Quest for Fire”, a 1981 film by Jean-Jacques Annoud. In it there is no recognizable dialogue, just storytelling in it’s purest form. In my opinion, of course. I believe it’s one of Ron Pearlman’s earliest film performances.

[@trbd]

I cant believe hearst uttered the first "literally me" ever known to man

[@mmarook4223]

Masterpiece

[@TeoGrehan]

Anyone see the video about Pauline Kael? How she did exactly what she accused Wells of doing. Stole someone else's work and passed it off as her own. She literally did that for Raising Kane. I mean some people.

[@steveparadis2978]

www.reuters.com/article/us-books-paulinekael-howardsuber/howard-suber-on-kaels-research-theft-it-felt-like-rape-idUSTRE7A95IK20111110

[@kimjongun2266]

citizen kino

[@FabioRossettiFI]

What's that Fellini Satyricon poster on the left? Do you have a link to a complete image, by any chance?

[@pierredupont1096]

Good of Hearst to find a new hobby after assailing Mae West in bringing down a budding movie legend. Time well spent! (rolls eyes).

[@DungeonStudio]

I think anyone interested in Citizen Kane and/or Mank should seek out the HBO movie 'RKO 281'. I think it most accurately portrays the volatile relationship between Welles and Mank during the making of the film. And unless Fincher points it out in 'Mank' - there was probably apprehension and/or a drunken blurt that Mank didn't want his name on the script due to his affiliation with Hearst. Welles may have taken that at face value, or passed it onto the studio that took it upon themselves to remove his name. And I think as Hearst, Harper, Parson's got more incensed over the lying and mirroring of Kane being made - Welles, Mank, and the studio treated it like a hot potato being tossed around between them. And no doubt trying to position themselves for SOME Oscar wins out of it.

[@timmeadows970]

Maybe not the best but the most important.

[@danwroy]

Welles secretly wrote The Caine Mutiny. Bogdonavich let him use his name as a front.

[@nattmazzoni]

DO PART 2!!!

[@anubusx]

There was no cane in Citizen Kane.

[@OsirisT]

18:19 does anyone know what movie this is?

[@TheKinoCorner]

Touch of Evil

[@AgentStargrave]

RoboCop > Citizen Kane

[@everythingscam]

legendary

[@johns123]

Give us part 2

[@TheKinoCorner]

Oki wants me to do a big video on Orson's career. I think I'll do that.

[@sergiom.a.1236]

I shall produce this lad.

[@barringtonsmith9147]

Will someone please help me to understand the nooks and crannies

[@eftsoulpath333]

That was really well done. Kudos to you and thanks for the explanation!

[@mike188881]

it’s funny how talented ppl gravitate to eachother. heard u on lowres

[@toothbrushfromnisemonogatari]

Harakiri, Stalker, Ran, Dr Strangelove, I prefer those movies personally.

[@jamesalexander5623]

Nothing about Herrmann's Score?

[@snail736]

Great watch

[@neddelamatre9572]

Well done.

[@dilansmithee503]

Saw 'Mank' before this video. Looks like my Kino card has been revoked...

[@TheKinoCorner]

Hand it in at your local kinoplex

[@dilansmithee503]

@@TheKinoCorner I lost my job, my wife left me, my children refer to me as Dilan instead of dad and now I lost my Kinocard. Can this day get any worse....

[@kaykutcher2103]

@@dilansmithee503 Say neighbor does your dog have a yellow collar? You see as I was backing up on my way to work this morning...

[@arcwiz]

Damn Orson Welles was a chad

[@mahatmaniggandhi2898]

personally i prefer the magnificent ambersons, imagine if it wasn't butchered...

[@stae11]

part two please! this was excellent!

[@MarcusHinton]

Good job Peter

[@bluearrow6007]

Crazy that this film flopped at the box office

[@VinceVintage]

Very Chad-like sweater mang | Great analysis though

[@mmartinisgreat]

I think it's children of men. Greatest film ever made

[@capscow_5398]

have you a light Mac...

[@PatrickWDunne]

Is that a Llewyn Davis poster?

[@TheKinoCorner]

You know it!

[@foujj]

Love me some Citizen Kane, but I gotta go with Dr. Strangelove.

[@carlfishburn4843]

I'm new to your channel and am so far a big fan

[@josephsolowyk7697]

Genuinely never seen it.

[@PatrickTouma]

I thought he was dabbing in the thumbnail.

[@TheKinoCorner]

Patrick Touma he isn’t?

[@texhno7909]

citizen kane.....................

[@BraxtonSwine]

You should change your name to 'Citizen Kino'

[@udokier6656]

has anyone ever told you that you look like James Franco?

[@skemsen]

Super well made and interesting video. The busy background music was however highly annoying and so unnecessary. Also felt like it didn’t fit the style of the video. Very weird choice. Kind of ruined it for me 😢

[@karlkarlos3545]

Too bad that "Mank" was dull as dishwater (besides all the debunked historical lies).

[@TheKinoCorner]

Agreed. Really didn't like the film. You can read my review of it on Letterboxd letterboxd.com/thekinocorner/film/mank/

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

@@TheKinoCorner Unfortunately, it bought Pauline Kael's _awful,_ heinous hit-job as gospel... too bad. The posthumous trashing of Orson Welles continues... 🤬

[@steveparadis2978]

Fincher wanted to make his father a star--his very own Susan Alexander--so I guess "Mank" is his "Salammbo".

[@thorn262]

@Jimmy1982Playlists First, one sells to their Overlords ('The New Yorker'). Then, if they buy it, it's understood that it can be sold to their buying audience/readers. 'But, what does Kael say?,' was a standard comment by movie-goers at the time. Kael was a substitute for insight.

[@_scabs6669]

He wore the fatsuit at his funeral

[@overbiteneanderthal7370]

Its aight...

[@shaggybreeks]

If it weren't for all the hype, most people would consider this a fairly good noir example. Nothing wrong with it, but wow, is it overrated. I was expecting to be moved to my bones. It was just a good movie.

[@barringtonsmith9147]

Follow the Don

[@mmddyyyy-his]

Fight Club is also one of the greatest movie of all time

[@CMTT]

Born in 1950?

[@narsingnirzat5781]

Best only for juris and journalist with political leanings. As for a simple audience like me from India Casablanca is far far far better than Citizen Kane in every aspect. Casablanca is the best ever made.

[@slamdunk2270]

The greatest movie of all-time is The Lord of the Rings.

[@ygr6484]

Sonic 2 is a better film than Citizen Lame

[@tomforsythe7024]

I would argue the film is even more relevant, in the Trump era.