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.

Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) was said by Orson Welles to not be a biography of William Randolph Hearst, but a composite of many people from that era.

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.

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.

He is currently a board member of the Center for Citizen Leadership and Malaria No More, a New York-based nonprofit that was launched at the 2006 White House Summit with the goal of ending all deaths caused by malaria.

In 1905 he launched a daily newspaper, the Auburn Daily Citizen, as a progressive voice to counter the city's dominant daily, the Auburn Daily Advertiser.

Krikalev, aka " the last Citizen of the USSR ", launched from the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic within the USSR, and landed in the independent Republic of Kazakhstan.

* 19 November-The Irish Citizen Army is launched at a meeting of the Dublin Civic League in Dublin.

Ben Tillett, the dockers ' leader, and other radical trade unionists were inspired to raise funds for a permanent labour movement daily, to compete with the newspapers that championed the two main political parties, the Liberals and Conservatives, but independent of the official Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress, which were planning a daily of their own ( launched as the Daily Citizen in October 1912 ).

In late March 2006, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Daily News, Colgan launched Citizen Hunter, a website about social, political and community action.

The 1916 Easter Rising was launched by the IRB, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army.

Foster Company launched Foster's Sunday Citizen to compete with Herald Sunday and the New Hampshire Sunday News.

* Pat Hingle in the television film Citizen Cohn ( 1992 ).

Production was suspended in July 2004 following Brando's death, at which time Behi stated that he would continue the film as an homage to Brando, with a new title of Citizen Brando.

Much of the inspiration which led Bogdanovich to his cinematic creations came from early viewings of the film Citizen Kane.

Ebert has indicated that his favorite film is Citizen Kane, joking, " That's the official answer ," although he prefers to emphasize it as " the most important " film.

In 2003, Ebert had a cameo appearance in the film Abby Singer, in which he recited the white parasol monologue from Citizen Kane.

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 ).

Additionally, " Citizen Kane ", a sketch in which two people discuss the film Citizen Kane with different meanings, was something the pair had performed at an art gallery.

Orson Welles argued that it was a perfect textbook of film making and claimed to have watched it more than 40 times during the making of Citizen Kane.

Under the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, the film collection owns prints of many familiar feature-length movies, including Citizen Kane and Vertigo, but the department's holdings also contains many less-traditional pieces, including Andy Warhol's eight-hour Empire, various TV commercials, and Chris Cunningham's music video for Björk's All Is Full of Love.

Though Wise worked only as editor on Citizen Kane, it is likely that while working on the film he became familiar with the optical printer techniques employed by Linwood Dunn, inventor of the practical optical printer, to produce effects for Citizen Kane such as the image projected in the broken snowglobe which falls from Kane's hand as he dies.

In classic motion pictures such as Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, the director created storyboards that were initially thought by cinematographers as to be impossible to film.

* Walter Parks Thatcher, a character in the film Citizen Kane