8.4K views · 457 reactions | With CITIZEN KANE (1941), the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, 25-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. Our new 4K UHD edition of Welles's masterpiece enters the collection this month —and you can preorder it now for 50% OFF at @barnesandnoble! https://bit.ly/2JcqAmg | The Criterion Collection | Facebook

“Citizen Kane” (1941): A Film That Invented the Language There is cinema before Citizen Kane, and cinema after. The difference resembles daylight breaking through a shuttered room. Orson Welles was twenty-five. Let that sink in: twenty-five years old. He made Kane not as a film alone, but as a statement, a revolution veiled in the form of a debut. A man entered Hollywood with a voice shaped by radio, a soul steeped in Shakespeare, and the audacity of youth — and created something that continues