Citizen Kane (1941)

Eighty years ago today, the film Citizen Kane was released. It was a box office flop and openly booed at the Academy Awards that year, but it received Best Picture at the New York Film Critics Circle Award and Best Film from the National Board of Review. Not until RKO sold it’s library to television in 1956 and it started appearing in people’s homes and the rerelease in theaters did the recognition of the film start to change. It is continually on the top, if not the top of every best film of all time list for it’s subject matter, it’s cinematography, writing, and acting. I first saw it in high school in a film appreciation class, but then sought it out in a theater showing. You should do the same if you ever see it listed. It’s dark and cold, lonely, and beautiful.

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