2.8K views · 89 reactions | Gregg Toland (May 29, 1904 – September 28, 1948) - Deep Focus - CITIZEN KANE (Quarto Potere) - Orson Welles - 1941 (v.o.) #storiadelcinema www.ilsorpassocinema.com #citizenkane | Il Sorpasso Cinema | Facebook

29K views · 82 reactions | What's the real story behind Citizen Kane? Orson Welles' acclaimed 1941 film was a thinly-veiled biopic of William Randolph Hearst — but how much is fact and how much is fiction? | American Experience | PBS | Facebook

“Citizen Kane” (1941): A Film That Invented the Language There is cinema before Citizen Kane, and cinema after. The difference resembles daylight breaking through a shuttered room. Orson Welles was twenty-five. Let that sink in: twenty-five years old. He made Kane not as a film alone, but as a statement, a revolution veiled in the form of a debut. A man entered Hollywood with a voice shaped by radio, a soul steeped in Shakespeare, and the audacity of youth — and created something that continues