The birth of modern movie making.

Rating: Null/10 (14 February 1999)

Citizen Kane is a film that has influenced directors in every country that has a film industry. Directors that range from Ed Wood to the likes of Kurosawa, Scorsese, Tarantino, etc...use Kane as a blueprint for their own films. The deep focus cinematography provided by Greg Toland is a precursor to the fluid camera work of Martin Scorsese. The fragmented story structure can be seen in Kurosawa's Rashomon, and in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. To watch Citizen Kane now, you are witnessing the birth of modern films. The cinematography, the editing, the fragmented story, the art direction all are precursors to today's films. Citizen Kane is, in one word, magnificent.