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Charles Foster Kane's 80th birthday

Started by Keebleman, May 01, 2021, 07:18:33 PM

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Keebleman

I have as broad a contrarian streak as anyone but come on, Citizen Kane is a GREAT film, even if everyone keeps on saying it is, and it premiered eighty years ago today at the Palace Theatre in New York!  A terrific trailer too.  Witty and playful and not containing any footage from the actual movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dxh3lwdOFw

Butchers Blind

Apparently not as good as Paddington 2.

Keebleman

Quote from: Butchers Blind on May 01, 2021, 07:27:07 PM
Apparently not as good as Paddington 2.

I never said it was, but it's good anyway.

Love trailers that don't contain any footage from the actual move. The Terminator 2 one is the best.

Simon Callow slates it in his Welles biography but I think it's an amazing piece of work in how it tells a man's story using so many techniques, from newsreel to flashback. The flaw would maybe be that it's way ahead of the audience and is hard to digest in one viewing because so much flashes by in a few seconds or minutes.

'The Magnificent Ambersons', if not cut to pieces, would have given the story space to breathe, and there's rather more empathy.

EOLAN

Quote from: Satchmo Distel on May 05, 2021, 11:42:08 PM

'The Magnificent Ambersons', if not cut to pieces, would have given the story space to breathe, and there's rather more empathy.

Tim Holt gave perhaps the greatest eating performance in that film. Scoffing everything back. None of this using your utensils to move things around a plate or just hold close to your face nonsense.

Egyptian Feast

Quote from: Satchmo Distel on May 05, 2021, 11:42:08 PM
'The Magnificent Ambersons', if not cut to pieces, would have given the story space to breathe, and there's rather more empathy.

Did you see this story about a planned expedition to find Welles' original cut in Brazil? Possibly too much to hope for, but you never know.

Ignatius_S

Quote from: Egyptian Feast on May 06, 2021, 12:50:23 PM
Did you see this story about a planned expedition to find Welles' original cut in Brazil? Possibly too much to hope for, but you never know.

Ah, that's interesting.

A filmmaker, Brian Rose is attempting to recreate the missing footage using animation (but isn't striving for photo-realism, I hasten to add) to try and give a sense of the original cut. https://lwlies.com/articles/the-magnificent-ambersons-animated-reconstruction-orson-welles/