Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-screenwriter, director and star.
The picture was Welles's first feature film.
Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing( Original Screenplay) by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles.
Considered by many critics, filmmakers, and fans to be the greatest film ever made," Citizen Kane" was voted as such in five consecutive British Film Institute" Sight& Sound" polls of critics, and it topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as its 2007 update.
" Citizen Kane" is particularly praised for Gregg Toland's cinematography, Robert Wise's editing, Bernard Herrmann's music, and its narrative structure, all of which have been considered innovative and precedent- setting.
The quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a character based in part upon the American newspaper magnates William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, and aspects of the screenwriters' own lives.
Upon its release, Hearst prohibited mention of the film in any of his newspapers.
Kane's career in the publishing world is born of idealistic social service, but gradually evolves into a ruthless pursuit of power.
Narrated principally through flashbacks, the story is told through the research of a newsreel reporter seeking to solve the mystery of the newspaper magnate's dying word:" Rosebud".
After the Broadway successes of Welles's Mercury Theatre and the controversial 1938 radio broadcast" The War of the Worlds" on" The Mercury Theatre on the Air", Welles was courted by Hollywood.
He signed a contract with RKO Pictures in 1939.
Although it was unusual for an untried director, he was given the freedom to develop his own story, to use his own cast and crew, and to have final cut privilege.
Following two abortive attempts to get a project off the ground, he wrote the screenplay for" Citizen Kane", collaborating on the effort with Herman Mankiewicz.
Principal photography took place in 1940 and the film received its American release in 1941.
While a critical success," Citizen Kane" failed to recoup its costs at the box office.
The film faded from view after its release, but was subsequently returned to the public's attention when it was praised by such French critics as André Bazin and given an American revival in 1956.
The film was released on Blu-ray on September 13, 2011, for a special 70 th- anniversary edition.
" Citizen Kane" was an inductee of the 1989 inaugural group of 25 films that established the National Film Registry list.
The Captive City (1962 film)
The Captive City (Italian: "La città prigioniera") is a 1962 Italian English-language war film directed by Joseph Anthony and starring David Niven, Lea Massari and Ben Gazzara.
It is based on the 1955 novel "The Captive City" by John Appleby.
The film was released in the US as Conquered City by American International Pictures as a double feature with "The Day the Earth Froze".
Captive (2008 film)
Captive was a Russian- Bulgarian film by Alexei Uchitel on the novel by Vladimir Makanin" Caucasian Captive".
The working title of the film was also" Caucasian Captive".
Premiere of the film took place September 5, 2008 in St. Petersburg.
The Russian film movie came out September 11, 2008.
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
The Battle Over Citizen Kane is a 1996 documentary film about the clash between newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and actor/ writer/ director Orson Welles over Welles's 1941 motion picture" Citizen Kane", which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time.
" The Battle Over Citizen Kane" aired January 29, 1996, as an episode of the Public Broadcast System's" The American Experience" series.
The documentary was narrated by Richard Ben Cramer, who co-wrote the program with Thomas Lennon.
The rights to" The Battle Over Citizen Kane" were acquired by Scott Free productions in 1997 and adapted into a screenplay for the 1999 HBO movie" RKO 281", directed by Benjamin Ross.
281 was the number assigned by RKO studios to identify the production internally.
Operation Leopard
La légion saute sur Kolwezi also known as" Operation Leopard" is a French war film directed by Raoul Coutard filmed in French Guiana.
The script is based on the true story of the Battle of Kolwezi that happened in 1978.
It was diligently described in a book of the same name by former 1 REP Captain Pierre Sergent.
He published his book in 1979; the film came out in 1980.
Raoul Coutard shot the film in a documentary style.
La Captive
La Captive( The Captive) is a 2000 drama film directed by Chantal Akerman and featuring Olivia Bonamy, Sylvie Testud, and Stanislas Merhar.
This French language film is loosely based on Marcel Proust's novel" La Prisonnière".
The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
The Captive: The Longest Drive 2 is a 1976 film directed by Lee H. Katzin.
It stars Joaquin Garay III and Tim Matheson.
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Beyond Citizen Kane
Beyond Citizen Kane is a 1993 British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and first broadcast on Channel 4.
It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group, the largest in Brazil, and discusses the group's influence, power, and political connections.
Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho was criticised and compared to the fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film "Citizen Kane."
According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in manipulation of news to influence public opinion.
Rede Globo objected to the film's position and tried to buy Brazilian rights, but Hartog had already made agreements to give non-TV rights to political and cultural groups in Brazil.
However, the documentary cannot be broadcast on TV in Brazil since it contains large sections of footage owned by Globo.
Nevertheless, copies sold in Britain reached Brazil in the 1990s and circulated widely there.
In addition, since the Internet boom of the early 21st century, the film has been released on video sharing websites YouTube and Google Video.

Question: Which film came out first, The Captive: The Longest Drive 2 or Beyond Citizen Kane?