Welles classic will have special screening in Queens
CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, 1941)
Queens Theatre in the Park
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York State Pavilion
Thursday, October 1, 7:00
Tickets: $10
718-760-0064
http://www.queenstheatre.org
http://www2.warnerbros.com/citizenkane
CITIZEN KANE is the best-made film we have ever had the pleasure to watch ¬ again and again and again, and it is even more brilliant on the big screen. A young, brash, determined Orson Welles created a masterpiece unlike anything seen before or since ¬ a beautifully woven complex narrative with a stunning visual style (compliments of DP Gregg Toland) and a fabulous cast of veterans from his Mercury radio days. Each moment in the film is unforgettable, not a word or shot out of place. Like every film Welles made, CITIZEN KANE was fraught with controversy, not the least of which was a very unhappy William Randolph Hearst seeking to destroy the negative of a film he thought ridiculed him. KANE won only one Oscar, for writing ¬ which also resulted in controversy when Herman J. Mankiewicz claimed that he was the primary writer, not Welles. It lost the Oscar for Best Picture to John Ford¹s HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, but it has topped nearly every greatest-films-of-all-time list ever since. The October 1 screening is the first in a six-part collaboration between Queens Theatre in the Park and the Museum of the Moving Image and will be introduced by David Schwartz.