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...first film with a nonlinear plot should take a front row seat at the Brattle on Monday night. The film is told, in present and past, as a quest for the elusive element that drove him through his triumphs and to his downfall. The only clue is Kane's dying word, "a piece in a jigsaw puzzle": "Rosebud...
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Charles Foster Kane and Norma Desmond are two of the largest personalities ever to cast their shadows on the silver screen. This Monday, an extraordinary Brattle Theater double feature finally gives these two egos worthy company: each other...
There are many reasons Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" (1941) is widely regarded to be the greatest film of all time. To watch it is to relive your favorite cinema moments; every scene, every plot turn, every camera angle has influenced countless filmmakers. But the pleasure of watching, or rewatching, "Citizen Kane" is not derived solely from an appreciation of its technique. The greatest films tell great stories, and Kane's, like that of Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard," is an absorbing tale of ambition and loss...
...Citizen Kane," loosely based on the life of media magnate William Randolph Hearst, follows the rise and fall of a national celebrity whose initial passion for championing the "working man" is replaced by an obsession with embodying his own myth. Welles, who co-wrote, directed and produced the film, plays the cynical multimillionaire from his idealistic college days through his demise, old and forgotten in the "Xanadu" he has built to himself...