Citizen Kane study guide 2020

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Citizen Kane (1941)
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Norman Jewison (Director) – In the Heat of the Night, Moonstruck, The Hurricane

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Citizen Kane (1941)
Steven Spielberg (Director) – Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Arc, E.T., Jurassic Park,
Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List

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Citizen Kane (1941)
Charlton Heston (Actor) – Ben-Hur, Planet of the Apes, Touch of Evil, Julius Caesar

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Citizen Kane (1941)
Liza Minelli (Actor) – Cabaret, Arrested Development, Arthur

One Man’s Perspective
WATCH: https://youtu.be/aeQOJZ-QzBk

One Man’s Perspective
WATCH: Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Citizen Kane https://youtu.be/KrBuWXVEaiU

Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane – Rejected Pitches http://youtu.be/Wd9z9Y-q3Is

Study Guide
“Citizen Kane”
VFP 3000
Films and Filmmakers
Edward Bowen

“Citizen Kane” (1941)
RKO Studios, Executive Producer George Schaefer
Mercury Productions
Produced and Directed by Orson Welles
Original Screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
Cinematography by Gregg Toland
Original Score by Bernard Herrmann
Edited by Robert Wise
Special Effects by Vernon L. Walker and Linwood G. Dunn
Sets by Percy Ferguson
Est. Budget $ 840,000 Est. Initial Box Office $690,000
Eventual Est. Box Office $1,586,000 (US)

READ: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505270_162-57395368/citizen-kane-as-
seen-from-hearst-castle/

William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California

Xanadu, Florida Everglades

With Actress Marion Davies

Roman a clef / Film a clef
A fictional story comprised on non-fiction elements and veiled characters.
The Supremes?
The Clintons?
Bob Fosse?
Curt Cobain?
Anna Wintour?
Huey Long?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_%C3%A0_clef

Somewhat like Charles Foster Kane, William Randolph Hearst –
• Was a Newspaper Tycoon.
• At 23, asked his father to let him run the San Francisco Examiner.
• Used sensational stories and inflammatory editorial content designed to boost circulation.
• Told artist Frederick Remington regarding Cuba: ”You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.”
• Launched failed bids for Mayor and Governor of New York.
• Began as a populist; ended as a reactionary. Consorted with fascists, including Hitler.
• Built Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California between 1922 and 1947, decorated with an extensive
art collection.
• Financed mistress Marion Davies’ movies and publicized her career, pushing her to abandon
comedy and take on more dramatic roles.

Unlike Charles Forster Kane, William Randolph Hearst -
• Was born rich, the pampered son of an adoring mother.
• Met Marion Davies when she was a famous and successful beauty.
• Never married Davies.
• Was twice elected to Congress.
“The Real Citizen Kane”
http://podcasts.howstuffworks.com/hsw/podcasts/symhc/2009-12-30-symhc-citizen-
kane.mp3
“How the Hearst Castle Works”
http://podcasts.howstuffworks.com/hsw/podcasts/symhc/2010-01-06-symhc-hearst-
castle.mp3

Roman a Clef
Samuel Insull (1859-1938)
• From humble origins, he helped build America’s
electrical industry and infrastructure and became a
utilities magnate.
• Married a Broadway ingénue, Gladys Wallis,
almost 20 years younger than he.
• Built the Chicago Civic Opera House in 1929.
• Third String New Your Times Drama Critic Herman
J. Mankiewicz, assigned to review one of Wallis’
plays, returned to the newsroom drunk and passed
out after writing only the first sentence of a
negative review.

Roman a Clef
Harold McCormick (1872-1941)
• Married into the powerful
Rockefeller family.
• Divorced to marry opera singer
Ganna Walska, whose career he
lavishly promoted.

Roman a Clef
By coincidence, as related by Welles in his
autobiography, he once found himself alone in
an elevator with Hearst. It was the night of
Citizen Kane's San Francisco premiere, and
Welles invited Hearst to the opening. "He
didn't answer, wrote Welles. “And as he was
getting off at his floor, I said, 'Charles Foster
Kane would have accepted.'"
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/23/local/la-me-citizen-kane-20120123

Cinematography – Gregg Toland
The Technical Dimension
WATCH: Greg Toland https://youtu.be/dIYg-tHt86E

Cinematography – Gregg Toland
Gregg Toland https://youtu.be/0Bq5lo6ggqw

Opening – “No Trespassing”
In the following scene, notice
• The clever use of miniatures,
paintings, left-over sets,
reflections, obscuring mist and
dissolves used to suggest and
create the estate of Xanadu.
• The use of lighting and music to
establish mood.
• The sense of constant forward
movement created by the
dissolves, past the No Trespassing
sign and into the estate, closer
and closer to our destination,
• The consistent placement of the
lighted window in each frame, our
objective as we move forward
http://youtu.be/-r0b_XeRkG4

Opening – “No Trespassing”
WATCH: No Trespassing http://youtu.be/-r0b_XeRkG4

News on the March
In the following scene, notice all the techniques
intended to simulate the newsreels of the day,
providing verisimilitude and suspension of
disbelief, including
• The narration and the narrator
• The use of graphics, on-screen text and title
cards
• The music
• Stock footage and apparent stock footage
• Damage to footage suggesting age,
including scratches, contrast and fading
• Wipes and other “gimmicky” transitions
• Hyperbole and other “heightened” language
• Jump cuts and awkward framing
• Historical figures combined with fictional
characters
• Limited perspectives
https://youtu.be/6XfcWuTkSK4

News on the March
WATCH: News on the March https://youtu.be/6XfcWuTkSK4

News on the March
Sir Basil Zaharoff
WATCH: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/greek-russian-arms-trader-financier-
sir-basil-zaharoff-in-news-footage/509126127

News on the March
The March of Time
The March of Time – Inside Nazi Germany https://youtu.be/uUsB_jRtk9E

Deep Focus, Wide Angle Lenses, and Blocking
Welles and Toland went to great technical lengths to
create “deep focus,” allowing elements in the
foreground, middle ground and background to be
simultaneously in focus.
This is turn allowed Welles the latitude to
• Play certain scenes without resorting to intercutting
or other editing
• Stage and move his actors through space unimpeded
by focus limitations
• Employ stage techniques of blocking and moving
actors he had learned as a renowned stage director

Deep Focus
WATCH: Essay # 1 https://youtu.be/-U_qLL0L5rU

In the following scenes notice how deep focus
allows Welles to stage his actors in depth and allow
scenes to play out with less editing.

WATCH: Bust http://youtu.be/QrzbdfqZnSc

WATCH: Fireplace http://youtu.be/dwBGYG6-vh4

WATCH: Suicide https://youtu.be/J8homvzeQlg

Lighting
The bold lighting of Citizen
Kane, with its dark shadows,
high contrast, visible shafts
of light, dramatically
darkened faces, can be
traced back to the previous
cinematographic work of
Gregg Toland …

Lighting
Gregg Toland, especially his
collaborations with director
John Ford, whom Welles
idolized …

Lighting
Gregg Toland, especially his
collaborations with director
John Ford, whom Welles
idolized, as well as in Welles’
own stage work.

Lighting
In the following scene, pay
attention to the light on
character’s faces. It was
common practice to assure
that actors’ faces were
illuminated. What are the
filmmakers trying to say by
selecting whose faces are lit
and when they are lit?
WATCH: Declaration http://youtu.be/sQxY6HctOPA

Lighting
WATCH: Declaration http://youtu.be/sQxY6HctOPA

Editing / Montage
Watch the
following scene.
16 Years in 2
Minutes over
breakfast.
Notice the technical
and narrative
devices and
solutions to
compressing Kane’s
first marriage into a
series of
representative
events. How do
things change as
time moves
forward? What parts
do lighting, costume,
set design, makeup,
music and camera
movement play?

Editing / Montage
WATCH: A Marriage Like Any Other Scene https://youtu.be/Rfl2M8B9WA8

Editing / Montage
Opera Career
Again, watch the
following scene.
Notice the technical and
narrative devices and
solutions to compressing
Susan’s opera career into a
series of representative
events. What parts do
editing, lighting, costume,
set design, makeup, music
and camera movement
play in creating mood and
tension.
WATCH: Opera Outcome https://youtu.be/4XplqmjGoKE

Low Angles
Welles famously had the floor
of the studio torn out and and
a hole dug to get the camera
as low as he wished for this
scene?
Although not unheard of, low
angles were somewhat rare in
studio films of the time, as the
sets were lit from above and
seldom included ceilings.
Watch the scene and ask
yourself why these extreme
low angles were so important
to Welles.

Low Angles
WATCH Low Talkers https://youtu.be/8fa0bxI-I2k

Special Effects – Linwood Dunn
READ Special Effects in Citizen Kane https://fxmakingof.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/special-effects-in-citizen-kane/

Special Effects – Original Glass Mattes
http://nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com/2011/01/rko-home-of-kong-kane-androcles-mr.html

Special Effects – Matte Components

Special Effects –Matte Shots

Special Effects – Deep Focus via Special Effects
Practically everything here is matte
art (by Mario Larrinaga or Fitch
Fulton) with even the reflection
upon the polished floor.
Foreground and background are
shot separately so both can be
rendered in focus.

Special Effects – Matte Shots
A three part composite - the road and sea are separate plates split
screened together, with a Chesley Bonestell painted beach, tree line and
sky.

A full painting with
small mid section
live action plate and a
slow optical push in.

A multi-part composite
with mostly painted
theatre, live action
elements with stage
And standing
Observers, and a split
screened in Gettes
in the near
foreground.

Special Effects – Linwood Dunn
WATCH: Documentary SFX https://youtu.be/-8IIClXwQIY

Sound
Welles had been one of
the most innovative and
imaginative artists
working in radio drama,
and brought to Citizen
Kane an attention to
sound seldom heard
before.
One of the techniques he
brought from radio was
overlapping dialogue.
WATCH: Screening Room http://youtu.be/4G8kakbhENA

Sound Design as Illusion
Welles' most basic use of
sound was to create the
illusion of off-screen elements,
to make the viewer "see" what
is not actually onscreen. This is
most striking in the rally scene,
when gubernatorial candidate
Kane is giving a speech in a
huge, packed hall. The speech
is loaded with lines that draw
thunderous applause. In
reality, of course, there is no
huge hall, no clapping crowds,
just a few matte paintings and
the sounds of applause, just as
outside the building after the
rally we hear a marching band
without seeing one.
WATCH: Speech https://youtu.be/uNaDrnxp3L0

Sound Design as Suggestion
A more imaginative use of sound
was to add depth and power to a
scene, to evoke feelings in a
suggestive, almost subliminal way.
This is most evident in the scenes
inside Xanadu, Kane's vast "pleasure
dome." When Kane and his wife
Susan speak to each other, their
voices boom. One is tempted to say
they echo, but there is no echo.
There should be, given the size of
the space they occupy, but Welles
chooses to
just enlarge the sound, giving it a
spooky, otherworldly quality, as if
Xanadu was not just a palace but
another planet. Something similar
happens when the reporter
Thompson is speaking to the butler
Raymond: here the voices have the
sound of people speaking in a
sepulcher.
WATCH: Raymond https://youtu.be/IrOG0HqD9y4

Sound Design as Emotion
Yet a third use of sound is to convey the
emotional state of a character beneath the
surface action. The most glaring example comes
just before the enraged Kane destroys Susan's
room after she leaves him: we see a cockatoo flap
its wings and screech, the noise a substitute for
the screaming of Kane's wounded ego. A more
subtle instance comes when Kane and Susan are
arguing in their tent and Kane slaps her. We hear,
in the deep background, a woman screaming, as
if being attacked. Likewise, after Susan attempts
suicide, we see her in bed explaining to her
husband what drove her. On the soundtrack are
faint echoes of the opera singing that made her a
laughingstock.

Music – Bernard Herrmann
WATCH: Bernard Herrmann at 100 http://youtu.be/226TtyMrJH8

Music – Bernard
Herrmann
Herrmann composed
the haunting score for
the British thriller
“Twisted Nerve” in
1968. In 2003
Quentin Tarantino
used the music for
“Kill Bill Volume 1.”
WATCH: Kill Bill Vol 1 Twisted Nerve https://youtu.be/Nv04A8XzOzE

Make-Up
WATCH: Makeup Artist Maurice Seiderman https://youtu.be/QogORTjtivY

Baroque Style, Chiaroscuro, Tenebrism
ba·roque (b-rk)
adj.
1. also Baroque Of, relating to, or characteristic of a
style in art and architecture developed in Europe from
the early 17th to mid-18th century, emphasizing
dramatic, often strained effect and typified by bold,
curving forms, elaborate ornamentation, and overall
balance of disparate parts.
2. also Baroque Music Of, relating to, or characteristic of
a style of composition that flourished in Europe from
about 1600 to 1750, marked by expressive dissonance
and elaborate ornamentation.
3. Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in
ornamentation: "the baroque, encoded language of
post-structural legal and literary theory" (Wendy
Kaminer).
4. Irregular in shape: baroque pearls.
n. also Baroque
The baroque style or period in art, architecture, or
music.
http://regiesh.qwriting.org/20
10/10/25/film-analysis-
citizen-kane/

Baroque Style, Chiaroscuro, Tenebrism
Baroque painting was often dramatic, theatrical and
lit with very distinct light and dark contrast.
Chiaroscuro - A sharp contrast between light and
dark
Tenebrism: a style of painting where chiaroscuro, or
using violent contrasts of light and dark, becomes a
dominating feature.
How does this apply to the style of “Citizen Kane?”
http://regiesh.qwriting.org/2010/10/25/film-analysis-citizen-kane/

Flashbacks
The Dramatic Dimension
READ: http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s59flashback1.html
Further Reference: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2009/01/27/grandmaster-flashback/

Flashbacks
“The Power and the Glory” (1933)
READ:
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0DE5DE1231EF3ABC4F52DFBE668388629EDE

Rosebud
The most basic of all ideas was that of a search for the true
significance of the man’s apparently meaningless dying words.
Kane was raised without a family. He was snatched from his
mother’s arms in early childhood. His parents were a bank. From
the point of view of the psychologist, my character had never
made what is known as “transference” from his mother. Hence his
failure with his wives. In making this clear during the course of the
picture, it was my attempt to lead the thoughts of my audience
closer and closer to the solution of the enigma of his dying words.
These were “Rosebud.” The device of the picture calls for a
newspaperman (who didn’t know Kane) to interview people who
knew him very well. None had ever heard of “Rosebud.” Actually,
as it turns out, “Rosebud” is the trade name of a cheap little sled
on which Kane was playing on the day he was taken away from his
home and his mother. In his subconscious it represented the
simplicity, the comfort, above all the lack of responsibility in his
home, and also it stood for his mother’s love which Kane never
lost.
Orson Welles (1941)
It’s a gimmick, really,’ said Welles, “and rather dollar book Freud.
Orson Welles (1963)
http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=187

Rosebud – The Unsolved Mystery
No one finds out what “rosebud” means …
except all of us.
The power of Rosebud may lie in the fact that we
the viewers and only we the viewers are privileged
to know its meaning. Since we see it destroyed we
know that no one in the world of the film will EVER
have this insight into the character of Charles
Foster Kane. Rosebud is his lost childhood, his
absent mother, the weapon he uses against his
oppressor and kidnapper.

Thompson, and the Heart of Darkness
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1225401

When Welles arrived in Hollywood to begin his
work under a contract with RKO Studios, he
had in mind for his first film an adaptation of
Joseph Conrad’s novella “Heart of Darkness,”
the basis for Francis Ford Coppola’s later film
“Apocalypse Now.” “Heart of Darkness”
follows Charles Marlow as he travels upriver
into the heart of darkest Africa to find Kurtz, a
trader who has gone mad and is worshipped as
a god by the natives of the interior.
Marlow’s journey is not unlike that of
Thompson the reporter, trying to find the
elusive secret to character of a fellow human
being.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/28/100-best-novels-heart-of-darkness-joseph-conrad
References

Thompson, and the Heart of
Darkness
Welles had directed a version of “Heart of
Darkness” for radio, where he told most of
his stories from the first person perspective
of his main characters. He intended to shoot
the entire film from Marlow’s point-of-view,
another method of presenting a story in the
first person.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/28/100-best-novels-heart-of-darkness-joseph-conrad
References

WATCH: https://youtu.be/vmw68sw7AIE

Multiple Narrators, Various Perspectives
I wished to make a motion picture which was not a
narrative of action so much as an examination of
character. For this, I desired a man of many sides and
many aspects. It was my idea to show that six or more
people could have as many widely divergent opinions
concerning the nature of a single personality. Clearly
such a notion could not be worked out if it would apply
to an ordinary American citizen.
Orson Welles (1941)

Multiple Narrators, Various Perspectives, Unreliable Narrators
THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT. A HINDOO FABLE. John Godfrey Saxe
It was six men of Indostan, To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant, (Though all of
them were blind),That each by observation, Might satisfy his mind.
“God bless me!—but the Elephant Is very like a wall!”
“This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!”
“The Elephant Is very like a snake!”
“'T is clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree!”
“This marvel of an Elephant Is very like a fan!”
"The Elephant Is very like a rope!”
And so these men of Indostan, Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion, Exceeding stiff and
strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!
Moral
So, oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance, Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant, Not one of them has seen!

Rashomon (1950) Akira Kurosawa
WATCH: Brian Trenchard Smith on Rashomon https://youtu.be/7cJRLGsmRLc

“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”
“The Usual Suspects”
“Fight Club”
“Sucker Punch”
“Titanic”
There are three sides to every story: my side, your side and the truth.
And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.
Robert Evans “The Kid Stays in the Picture”

The Auteur Dimension
Martin Scorsese on Welles
WATCH: https://youtu.be/vXYl1ZrMkd8

I think a movie needs a boss. There has never been a motion picture of consequence that
has not been, broadly speaking, the product of one man. This man has been the
producer, could be the writer … should be the director… Good pictures … bear the
signature … of this dominant personality… When it is absent, a motion picture is a mere
fabrication of the products of various studio departments … as meaningless as any other
merchandise achieved by mass production.
Orson Welles, 1941

The whirlwind surrounding the making of Citizen
Kane is well known. Orson Welles, the brash
prodigy of stage and radio, earned the envy and
scorn of Hollywood veterans by striding onto the
RKO lot with an unprecedented contract
awarding him a three-picture deal, a massive
budget, and the final cut of his first film—the
Holy Grail of filmmaking. The controversial
subject of his cinematic debut riled one of the
most powerful men in the world, and upset the
delicate balance of the studio system. Orson
Welles earned every drop of ink written about
his impending career in film.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/05/citizen-kane-at-70-the-
legacy-of-the-film-and-its-director/237029/

A film is never really good unless the camera is
an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles

The Federal Theatre Project
The Mercury Players
The Mercury Theatre on the Air
The War of the Worlds

Orson Welles
By 1937, Orson Welles had taken Broadway by storm with a
series of innovative and imaginative theater productions.

Orson Welles
series of innovative and imaginative theater productions
WATCH: “Me and Orson Welles” Trailer https://youtu.be/KHoW2KhLulU

Orson Welles
series of innovative and imaginative theater productions
And had been featured on the cover of “Time” magazine.

Orson Welles
His theatrical achievements include a modern dress “Julius
Caesar” set in Fascist Italy, and a federally sponsored
production of “Macbeth,” set in Haiti, and with an all African-
American cast.
WATCH: Orson Welles Voodoo Macbeth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZLrqJka-EU

Orson Welles
He was also one of radio’s busiest performers …
Listen to https://soundcloud.com/enbowen/shadow
http://archive.org/details/RkoOrsonWelles-TheShadow-RadioRecodings
http://youtu.be/tzShbpY-Oqg

Orson Welles
And directed his acting company in weekly literary
adaptations for CBS radio, beginning as “First Person
Singular,” then as “The Mercury Theatre on the Air,” named
for his theatrical company.

Orson Welles
In 1938, “The Mercury
Theatre on the Air” was
a critical if not a ratings
success. Welles was a
master of radio as a
dramatic medium. He
conducted his programs
from a podium, as if the
show were a symphony,
and his actors and
technicians an orchestra.
He used the medium
with as no one before or
since.

“Treasure Island”
July 18, 1938
Listen to http://tinyurl.com/he6hwt2
Treasure Island – Mercury Theatre https://youtu.be/56jKvwtJJq0

“Dracula”
July 30, 1938
Listen to http://tinyurl.com/gm5wn4f
Dracula – Mercury Theatre https://youtu.be/SK4frrg7SyU

Orson Welles
October 30, 1938
The Mercury Theatre’s
version of H G Wells’ “The
War of the Worlds,” which
imagined an invasion of Earth
by Martians, achieved huge
notoriety after it caused
widespread panic and
listeners, believing it to be
true, attempted to flee the
oncoming invasion. Welles is
famous and infamous.
http://youtu.be/Xs0K4ApWl4g
http://www.mercurytheatre.info/

Orson Welles
He was 23 years of age.

Orson Welles
“The War of the Worlds”
WATCH: Orson Welles on War of the Worlds http://youtu.be/gfNsCcOHsNI

The contract that gave birth to Citizen Kane was an
unthinkable gamble by RKO, but the studio had
good reason to bet on Orson Welles. At 20, he
lorded over Broadway, first with Voodoo Macbeth,
a reworking of the "Scottish play" set in the
Caribbean and starring an all-African American
cast. He followed triumphant reviews by
establishing the Mercury Theatre and rewriting
Julius Caesar, setting it in Mussolini's Italy. The
curtain rose to universal acclaim. In a 1938 cover
story, Time magazine wrote of Welles, "If the
career of the Mercury Theatre, which next week
will be six months old, seems amazing, the career
of Orson Welles, who this week is 23, is no less so.
Were Welles's 23 years set forth in fiction form,
any self-respecting critic would damn the story as
too implausible for serious consideration."
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/05/citizen-kane-at-70-the-
legacy-of-the-film-and-its-director/237029/

The Contract
WATCH: http://youtu.be/5RtNESXcOVs

Orson Welles’ first feature film

Citizen Kane (1941)
TRAILER: http://youtu.be/YXIr1P9Fm5A

Citizen Kane (1941)
WATCH: AFI’s # 1 Movie of All Time http://youtu.be/IGUYOQUzrKU

Citizen Kane (1941)
OPTIONAL: http://youtu.be/wiS-E-u9M6A
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/03/14/movies/100000000725395/citizenkane.html

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
OPTIONAL: https://youtu.be/RZOmoZMAOTY

The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
WATCH: https://youtu.be/wuMqI5AI6hs

Macbeth (1948)
OPTIONAL: https://youtu.be/Z1_I36qHDts
OPTIONAL: http://youtu.be/yTBsKBfiUYI

Othello (1952)
OPTIONAL: https://youtu.be/Ef1NYk23v_U

Mr. Arkadin (1955)
OPTIONAL: https://youtu.be/iPDgGxLb2OM

Touch of Evil (1958)
Welles’ 1958 film “Touch of Evil”is famous for its audacious opening crane shot that
traverses a seedy southern border town .
WATCH: https://youtu.be/EhmYY5ZMXOY

WATCH: Part 1 https://youtu.be/vN6P0NFOlgY
Even more impressive if not as ostentatious is an almost 15 minute unbroken scene.
Taking place in a small apartment and recorded in one unedited shot it is a master class
in camera movement and blocking.

Even more impressive if not as ostentatious is an almost 15 minute unbroken scene.
Taking place in a small apartment and recorded in one unedited shot it is a master class
in camera movement and blocking.
WATCH: Part 2 https://youtu.be/KxolttNBiCY

Chimes at Midnight (1965)
OPTIONAL: http://youtu.be/3bWraOy6Kw4

The Other Side of the Wind (1972)
Posthumously Released 2018
OPTIONAL: https://youtu.be/22LLc7s8TT0

The Other Side of the Wind (1972)
(Posthumously Released 2018)
WATCH: https://youtu.be/nMWHBUTHmf0

“Ed Wood” (1994)
OPTIONAL: https://youtu.be/_H9A9zTorrw

Citizen Kane (2010)
OPTIONAL: http://youtu.be/oWteTA_XncQ

Five Minutes Mr. Welles (2005)
OPTIONAL: https://youtu.be/s-4PPr3r_r0

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