Citizen Kane
In Our Time: Culture
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The Importance of Citizen Caine
Citizen Caine has this kind of delayed appearance on the European scene, and interestingly, it appears alongside neorealism. The main critic who I think really creates the fortunes for this is a man named Andrei Bazzin,. He goes on to write a small book on Wells, which is full of all kinds of interesting factual errors - but he gives the film its world historical significance. And so there's that sense of it as something ratherlike a great painting, rather like a great sonata, that every time you go back to it, you learn something new.
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