The noise and the nonsense that have attended the release of “Citizen Kane” may for the time being befog the merit of this extraordinary film. Too many people may have too ready an inclination ...

Remembering the facts of things isn’t the same as remembering the truth of them; as created by star and director Orson Welles and writer Herman Mankiewicz, both Kane the film and Kane the man ...

United Archives GMBH / Alamy When Citizen Kane premiered on May 1, 1941, it wasn’t at some historic Hollywood theater, or even at one of New York’s fancy movie houses. Instead, the film ...

The most lauded American movie ever, Citizen Kane was controversial even before it premiered 75 years ago this month—“Within the withering spotlight as no other film has ever been before ...