Review of Citizen Kane (1941) by Bob Stephens for San Francisco Examiner — 01 Jan 2000
Citizen Kane...has the best of everything: a great director and star, innovative cinematography, dreamlike - even nightmarish - art direction, a sonorous musical score, a skillful screenplay in which comic passages intensify the movie's tragic qualities by means of their grotesque juxtaposition (how lifelike!), a psychological / narrative form that predates our contemporary "psycho-histories" by at least 40 years, and best of all, a memorial word that, when spoken, recalls the film out of thin air.
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This review of Citizen Kane (1941) was written by Bob Stephens and published by San Francisco Examiner on 01 Jan 2000.
Citizen Kane has generally received very positive reviews.
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