Citizen Kane  

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Citizen Kane is a 1941 mystery/drama film. Released by RKO Pictures, it was the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. The story traces the life and career of Charles Foster Kane, a man whose career in the publishing world is born of idealistic social service, but gradually evolves into a ruthless pursuit of power. Narrated principally through flashbacks, the story is revealed through the research of a newspaper reporter seeking to solve the mystery of the newspaper magnate's dying word, "rosebud."

Citizen Kane is often cited as being one of the most innovative works in the history of film.

On its film canonical value, Sight & Sound editor Nick James commented that Kane is now 'established as cinema's Shakespeare', indicating a weariness of older films in which La Règle du jeu is compared to Flaubert, Vertigo to D. H. Lawrence Murnau's Sunrise to Beowulf.

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