1. Citizen Kane
From 1941

2. What Makes for an Amazing Film?
1. Was it thoughtfully created? Original?
2. Did the film move your emotions? Was it memorable?
3. Did the film have something important and original to say?

3. 5 Star Rating How would you rate our last movie?
5 Star- One of the best films (4) 4 Star- Very Good film worth watching again (11) 3 Star- Okay (11) 2 Star- Poor movie- not engaging (2) 1 Star- One of the worst films I’ve seen (1)

4. William Randolph Hearst
Created a Media Empire
Used Yellow Journalism
Attacked political corruption
Failed at politics
Married mArion Davies (2nd Wife)
Built a castle in San Simeon

5. Orson Welles Ran the mercury theatre on Broadway
Rose to fame on war of the worlds radio broadcast
Co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in Citizen Kane
Brought original film techniques never used before in film making

6. War of the Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g

7. Citizen Kane Controversy
The Film is a quasi- biographical story of hearts
Welles kept the production a secret
Hearst threatened to sue for libel, blackmail Hollywood and expose their personal lives (including welles affair), attack their immigration hiring practices and wouldn’t allow any rko films to be promoted in his newspapers, radio stations etc.
The major studio bosses offered to buy out the print and destroy it for $800,000
Rko refused, but thousands of theaters wouldn’t show it because of fear from hearst

8. Ground Breaking Movie Starts from the end- not chronologically
story comes from 5 different perspectives
Fake newsreel, fast forwarding of time
New camera angles/shadowing
New lenses put everything in focus At a depth of 200 feet
No film took on a powerful person in such a unflattering light, including private references
New makeup techniques, music score matched scene by scene
All new actors- never in a film before
No dramatic close-ups, used cloth ceilings, uplift lighting from the floors

9. awards Nominated for 9 academy awards
American film institute- #1 film of all time
100 percent rotten tomatoes
Roger ebert’s best film of all time
Most critics and film orginizations rate it in the top ten of all time