Citizen Kane was voted the greatest American film twice.

Enrolled at Columbia as a physics student, De Palma became enraptured with the filmmaking process after viewing Citizen Kane and Vertigo.

He considered editing this footage into a feature length film, focusing specifically on Donald Trump discussing Citizen Kane ( This segment was later released on the second issue of Wholphin ).

In addition, it is ranked third, behind Citizen Kane, and Casablanca on the AFI's 100 Years … 100 Movies list by the American Film Institute.

In 1941, RKO Pictures released Citizen Kane made by Orson Welles.

Among those films not themselves considered film noirs, perhaps none had a greater effect on the development of the genre than America's own Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), the landmark motion picture directed by Orson Welles.

He first gained worldwide fame in the Orson Welles films Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1942 ), and Journey into Fear ( 1943 ), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay.

Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles and Everett Sloane in Citizen Kane

In mid-1940 filming began on Citizen Kane, portraying the life of a press magnate ( played by Welles ) who starts out as an idealist but eventually turns into a corrupt, lonely old man.

When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane — based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst — did not do much business at theaters ; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film.

Citizen Kane launched the film careers of the Mercury Players, including Agnes Moorehead ( who played Kane's mother ), Ruth Warrick ( Kane's first wife ), and Ray Collins ( Kane's political opponent ).

However, Cotten was the only one of the four to find major success as a lead in Hollywood outside of Citizen Kane ; Moorehead and Collins became successful character film actors.

After the commercial disappointment of Citizen Kane, RKO was apprehensive about the new film, and after poor preview responses, cut it by nearly an hour before its release.

* Citizen Kane ( 1941 )

) Sondheim has expressed his dislike of movie musicals, favoring classic dramas like Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath, and A Matter of Life and Death.

Classic voice-overs in cinema history can be heard in Citizen Kane and The Naked City.

Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane in " Citizen Kane " ( 1941 )

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

** Orson Welles ' film Citizen Kane premieres in New York City.

* In the 1941 film Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane runs for New York governor and loses.

Film magazine Cinefantastique described it as " The Citizen Kane of Horror Movies ", and during 2004 the magazine Total Film named The Wicker Man the sixth greatest British film of all time.

The film's plot structure also bears similarity to Orson Welles's Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), particularly the opening scenes with Lawrence's death and the reporter inquiring notables at Lawrence's funeral.

Examples in film include the meaning of rosebud in Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), the titular Maltese Falcon, the Rabbit's Foot in Mission: Impossible III ( 2006 ), the briefcase in Pulp Fiction and Ronin, and the mineral unobtainium in Avatar ( 2009 ).

O ' Brien went on to do some special effects work, re-using one of the mattes from Son of Kong, on Orson Welles ' American classic Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and George Pal's Oscar-nominated animated short Tulips Shall Grow ( 1942 ), as well as developing his own project, Gwangi, about cowboys who encounter a prehistoric animal in a " lost " valley, which he failed to sell to the studio.

He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles ( 1966 ).

Wise began his movie career at RKO as a sound and music editor, but he soon grew to being nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for Citizen Kane in 1941.

Producer William Alland was attending a dinner party during the filming of Citizen Kane ( in which he played the reporter Thompson ) in 1941 when Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa told him about the myth of a race of half-fish, half-human creatures in the Amazon river.

It was photographed by Gregg Toland, later famed for his cinematography on films such as Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ).

* Mr Bernstein, the business partner of Charles Foster Kane in the 1941 film Citizen Kane

He wrote his first film score for Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Score of a Dramatic Picture.

* Citizen Kane ( 1941 )

An example of a newsreel story is in the film Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), which was prepared by RKO's actual newsreel staff.

Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, was released in 1941.

A deep focus shot from Citizen Kane ( 1941 ): everything, including the hat in the foreground and the boy ( young Charles Foster Kane ) in the distance, is in sharp focus.

In Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), cinematographer Gregg Toland and director Orson Welles used tighter apertures to create very large depth of field in the scenes, often rendering every detail of the foreground and background of the sets in sharp focus.

Several of his radio performers joined him, and Moorehead made her film debut as his mother in Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), considered one of the best films ever made.

Shortly after the storming of the Bastille, on 4 August feudalism was abolished and on 26 August, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen proclaimed.

In 2010, a retrospective on the movie entitled Citizen Wood: Making ‘ The Bride ,’ Unmaking the Legend was included in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 19 DVD set.

The Citizen Corps CERT curriculum ( including the Train-the-Trainer course ) was updated during the last half of 2008 to reflect feedback from instructors across the nation.

In 1789, Revolutionary France adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and, although short-lived, the National Convention was elected by all males in 1792.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France, 26 August 1789.

The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly ( Assemblée nationale constituante ), during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.

A second and lengthier declaration, known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793 was later adopted.

" Another militant group, the Irish Citizen Army, was formed by trade unionists as a result of the Dublin Lockout of that year.

James Connolly — head of the Irish Citizen Army ( ICA ), a group of armed socialist trade union men and women — was unaware of the IRB's plans, and threatened to start a rebellion on his own if other parties failed to act.

However, although it was lightly guarded, Volunteer and Citizen Army forces under Seán Connolly failed to take Dublin Castle, the centre of British rule in Ireland, shooting dead a police sentry and overpowering the soldiers in the guardroom, but failing to press home the attack.

Similarly, the rebel position at St Stephen's Green, held by the Citizen Army under Michael Mallin, was made untenable after the British placed snipers and machine guns in the Shelbourne Hotel and surrounding buildings.

The former Louis XVI, now simply named Citoyen Louis Capet ( Citizen Louis Capet ), was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793 on the Place de la Révolution, former Place Louis XV, now called the Place de la Concorde.

Olympe de Gouges was the author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was adopted by the National Assembly in August 1789 as a first step in their effort to write a constitution.

Lafayette believed the Orleanist constitutional monarchy was the safest course for the propertied interests and so Lafayette and Thiers became supporters of the Orleanist " Citizen King "-- Louis-Philippe.

The new National Constituent Assembly was heavily composed of royalist symphathizers of both the Legitimist ( Bourbon ) wing and the Orleanist ( Citizen King Louis Phiippe ) wing.

However the term Irish Republican Army in its modern sense was first used in the second decade of the 20th century for the rebel forces of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising.

In 2005 Rushton was quoted in the Ottawa Citizen as blaming the destruction of " Toronto the Good " on its black inhabitants.

Reagan was said to be considering a challenge to Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2012 but announced on Townhall. com on 15 March 2012 that chairing the Citizen Legislature Act " is better for me and the state ".