Citizen Kane

noun

1. an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles.

Example Sentences

When Schiffman teases that a movie is “no Citizen Kane,” it’s a reminder that this is the crowd that first, and rightly, redeemed “Kane” as a masterpiece.

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The film revolutionized the structure and grammar of modern cinema as surely as Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” had a decade earlier, and as Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” would a decade later.

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“We were now on a list of films that included ‘Citizen Kane,’ ‘Casablanca,’ ‘On the Waterfront,’ and ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ ” Mr. Reiner writes.

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Playing Ingrid-as-Aurora — the heroine of a film that, even its biggest fan admits, is “no ‘Citizen Kane’” — Lopez is shellacked under two layers of diva artifice.

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He mentions Gregg Toland, the legendary shooter of Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane.”

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