Raising Kane Amidst Personal Sh*t

[davemarc]

Steelhead, the Wanda Tinasky of the P-List, contends:
> 
> Actually, I think I decimated your ill-informed opinion on Welles and his
> movie in one line: Gregg Toland's cinematography alone ranks Citizen Kane
> as one of the five best American films. Do we need to talk about deep
> focus, the sepia tones of the film, the extraordinary use of lighting and
> shadows, the camera angles with their subtle resonances of German
> expressionism. There'd never been anything like it on American screen
> before

How 'bout The Power and The Glory (1933)?  And if you're talking about
screens and not studios, it's pretty well-understood these days that just
about all of the "innovations" in Citizen Kane had shown up in previous
films made outside of North America.  Citizen Kane's a great achievement
because it works so well, not necessarily because of its technical assets.

> --and little to equal it since.

Except for Schindler's List, of course.  The cinematography alone....

I really do love that Citizen Kane,

davemarc