In the annals of movie history, few titles hold as much weight as “Citizen Kane,” which has become shorthand for the Great American Film, like the Great American Novel, and is frequently shortlisted as such.
It’s not just the American Film Institute that thinks “Citizen Kane” is the best movie ever made.
Once every 10 years, the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound magazine compiles its own renowned list of the 100 greatest movies of all time based on an international poll of critics, and from 1962 to 2012, when Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” finally edged it out of the top spot, “Citizen Kane” reigned supreme.However, when producer, director, star, and…The post Citizen Kane Wasn’t Always Seen As A Cinematic Classic appeared first on /Film.
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