Word: kanes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time I saw Citizen Kane was two years ago in a small art house across from St. Sulpice in Paris. When the film ended, I noticed that the audience was full of young French film buffs clutching their Cahiers du Cinema and chattering fervidly about Orson Welles and what a revolution he had caused with this movie...
...would deny that Citizen Kane in 1941 opened up hundreds of new possibilities for film directors, but twenty years have passed since then, and filmmakers have imbibed Welles' techniques so fully that they use them almost unconsciously. The time has come to stop regarding Citizen Kane as a bag full of brand new tricks; the tricks are no longer new, but the cultists won't be satisfied unless they have told you about every sort of shot that Welles used for the first time. I am only slightly more annoyed when opera fans talk about Mozart's daring...
...matter of fact, the quartet is fairly insipid, but Citizen Kane remains an exciting film. Welles invented and perfected his style all at once, and it is this instant mastery that brands him a genius far more than his originality...
Quite appropriately, he chose to tell the story of a man (William Randolph Hearst) who shared his talent for big ideas and big success. And yet, he did not take the easy way out and laugh at Kane for the pompous megalomaniac that he was; he strove to make him a human being instead of a straw man like the one Andy Griffith played in A Face in the Crowd, a movie vaguely reminiscent of Kane. Indeed, Welles could never be called supersubtle in his characterization of Kane as a love-starved neurotic, but then he entirely avoids simple caricature...
...Pusey visited the National Taiwan University in the morning with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. R. Keith Kane. Mr. Kane is a member of the seven-man governing board of the Harvard Corporation. Dr. Pusey and his party were received by President and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at 4:30 in the afternoon...