Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Favorite Films #6

Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Wells, is thought by many to be the best American film ever made. I don’t know about that, but it is one of the greats. Orson Wells understood the importance of the details. For one shot Wells was said to have dug a hole in the stage floor to get the camera were he wanted it, all for just one shot. Orson Wells has a strange career in Hollywood, striving for greatness, but never quite making it. He went on to make many other films I enjoy, mostly for there strangeness, and non-Hollywood feel, Such as, The Trial, The Stranger, and Touch of Evil.

Tagline for Citizen Kane: Radio's Most Dynamic Artist . . The Man At Whose Voice A Nation Trembled . . . Now the screen's most exciting NEW star ! ORSON WELLES in the picture Hollywood said he'd never make
I also enjoy RKO 281. This is the story of Orson Wells struggle to make Citizen Kane. It is not 100% historically accurate, but a good movie and follow up to Citizen Kane. Often it seems that the story behind the story is just as interesting, and often more interesting than the story its self.

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