Writing about Orson Welles' CITIZEN KANE for Reverse Shot’s “Does It Again” symposium

For our 20 year anniversary symposium, writers were invited to examine how their approach to - or stance on - a film had changed over a period of time. I chose a film I was scared to write about - CITIZEN KANE - at a time when I didn’t know I was a writer. You can read the piece here or click on the photo above.

What Citizen Kane talks about is pretty much common currency everywhere now. The supremacy of the self, the squandering of talent, the exploitation of ignorance and fear, the abandonment of virtue. Welles himself lived all of this at the sharp end, while working in the film industry, from the release of Kane in 1941 until his death in 1985. Yet there is a romantic way to look at it…if we want.