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There are people who will tell you that this is one of Hitchcock's greatest films. So long as there is a world that includes Vertigo, Notorious, Psycho and Marnie, those people will be wrong. All the same, Hitchcock's lustrous American debut, the film David O. Selznick tempted him...
CITIZEN KANE ORSON WELLES, 1941
Best film ever? Maybe. But beyond the epiphanies of film form and camera work, Kane offers an acute view of American politics that applies today as much as it did then. Like Silvio Berlusconi and Michael Bloomberg, Kane (Welles) is a media magnate who runs for office. Like Mark Foley...
The problem is that the known particulars of the case-aside from fact that the victim had drifted into town looking for work and had a vague interest in a movie career-do not especially match the cosmic sociological maunderings that have surrounded it. The cops may have been inept...
The Alton-Mann films - T-Men, He Walked by Night, Reign of Terror, Border Incident and Devil's Doorway - are unlike any other noirs in their visual density and tonal texture. Like many movies in the genre, these are indebted to the look that Orson Welles and Gregg Toland created...