Double Feature: CITIZEN KANE, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS January 11, 2013

Friday, January 11 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: CITIZEN KANE, 1941, Warner Bros., 119 min. Orson Welles was only 25 when he directed this masterpiece, and it remains one of the most phenomenal motion pictures ever made. Welles, of course, also stars as Charles Foster Kane, a ruthless man who built a newspaper publishing empire and a character supposedly modeled after the real-life William Randolph Hearst. Trailblazing in so many respects, from Gregg Toland’s complex camera and lighting to Bernard Herrmann’s score to one of the finest ensemble casts (including Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane and Agnes Moorehead) ever assembled. With an Academy Award-winning script by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXIr1P9Fm5A
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, 1942, Warner Bros., 88 min. Director Orson Welles' poetic, tragic adaptation of Booth Tarkington's novel, centering on the fall of one wealthy family, with Stanley Cortez's dynamic camerawork providing a panorama of turn-of-the-century America and the decay of the old aristocracy. Orson Welles' talent and imagination were so prodigious that he spanned radio, movies, television, books and theater and excelled in them all; his presence courses through AMBERSONS even though, as the film’s narrator, he never appears onscreen.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L10d2rH2i10

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