Citizen Kane

The fresh, sophisticated, and classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world's most famous and highly-rated film, with its many remarkable scenes and performances, cinematic and narrative techniques and experimental innovations (in photography, editing, and sound). Its director, star, and producer were all the same genius individual - Orson Welles (in his film debut at age 25!), who collaborated with Herman J. Mankiewicz on the script (and also with an uncredited John Houseman), and with Gregg Toland as his talented cinematographer. [The amount of each person's contributions to the screenplay has been the subject of great debate over many decades.] Toland's camera work on Karl Freund's expressionistic horror film Mad Love (1935) exerted a profound influence on this film.

The film, budgeted at $800,000, received unanimous critical praise even at the time of its release, although it was not a commercial success (partly due to its limited distribution and delayed release by RKO due to pressure exerted by famous publisher W.R. Hearst) - until it was re-released after World War II, found well-deserved (but delayed) recognition in Europe, and then played on television.

The film engendered controversy (and efforts at suppression in early 1941 and efforts at suppression in early 1941 through intimidation, blackmail, newspaper smears, discrediting and FBI investigations) before it premiered in New York City on May 1, 1941, because it appeared to fictionalize and caricaturize certain events and individuals in the life of William Randolph Hearst - a powerful newspaper magnate and publisher. The film was accused of drawing remarkable, unflattering, and uncomplimentary parallels (especially in regards to the Susan Alexander Kane character) to real-life. The notorious battle was detailed in Thomas Lennon's and Michael Epstein's Oscar-nominated documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996), and it was retold in HBO's cable-TV film RKO 281 (1999) (the film's title refers to the project numbering for the film by the studio, before the film was formally titled):

komen dari nancy (Australia) mengenai Independent film

Pada 21- 27 hb hari tuh berlangsung satu kongres antarabangsa iaitu ICA congress 2008 di Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. Aku merupakan salah seorang sekretariat ICA 2008 sepanjang minggu tu, tugas aku tak lain berada di kaunter information disamping pakar-pakar bahasa seperti bahasa Arab, spanish, french, mandarin, English. Tapi ape yang nak disampaikan oleh aku disini adalah pada suatu hari datanglah seorang delegasi dari Australia ke meja information dan die mintak tolong kat aku pasal MACbook die. Sebenarnye die nak try connect MACbook die kat network ICA, so aku pun tolong la die nak dekat 20 minit gak la pastuh berjaya la connect MAC book die kat network ICA. Pada masa tu orang putih yang bername Nancy ni bukan main happy lagi die dan lepas tu die asyik cakap "Thank you" berkali-kali. Lepas daripada tu aku pun bagi la die pamplet Mini Cinema kat die yang mana beberapa tayangan seperti dokumentari mengenai Malaysia ngan Goverment nye cite la. Mase lepas die belek-belek pamplet tu die terus tanya aku , "Are you into Film? aku pun jawab la "Yes" Why? Nancy pun jawab "I just thinking that all this documentaries are just like government propaganda" "Dont you think so? aku pun jawab " Yes, but what can i do? Nancy pun cakap lagi "I have seen Independent Film by Malaysian before and i think its good and creative" " I love to see that kind of Films" .... kesimpulannya Nancy ni memang support Independent Film... aku pun berborak la ngan die pasal Independent Film... die pun banyak tanye pasal perkembangan Filem kat Malaysia macam Universiti yang tawarkan kos yang berkaitan ngan filem, broadcasting etc.. tapi bagi aku Si Nancy ni walaupun umur die dalam lingkungan 50 + tapi die mengikuti perkembangan semasa filem ... memang aku salute la Nancy ni.. bukan tu je Si Nancy ni sebenarnye merupakan salah seorang delegasi kongres ICA 2008 dan berkhidmat di National Archives of Australia... thanks Nancy...