What is Citizen Kane / The Magnificent Ambersons (2009) about?

CITIZEN KANE, 1941, Warner Bros., 119 min. Orson Welles’ debut remains one of the most phenomenal motion pictures ever made. It unspools in flashback the life story of legendary newspaperman Charles Foster Kane (based on the real life of William Randolph Hearst), as a pack of reporters tries to decipher the meaning of Kane's final utterance: “Rosebud.” Trailblazing in so many aspects, from Gregg Toland's complex camera and lighting to Bernard Herrmann's score to one of the finest ensemble casts (including Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane and Agnes Moorehead) ever assembled. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, 1942, Warner Bros., 88 min. Director Orson Welles' poetic, tragic adaptation of Booth Tarkington's novel, centering on the fall of one wealthy family, with Stanley Cortez's dynamic camerawork providing a panorama of turn-of-the-century America and the decay of the old aristocracy.

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What is Citizen Kane / The Magnificent Ambersons (2009) about?: CITIZEN KANE, 1941, Warner Bros., 119 min. Orson Welles’ debut remains one of the most phenomenal motion pictures ever made. It unspools in flashback the life story of legendary newspaperman Charles Foster Kane (based on the real life of William Randolph Hearst), as a pack of reporters tries to decipher the meaning of Kane's final utterance: “Rosebud.” Trailblazing in so many aspects, from Gregg Toland's complex camera and lighting to Bernard Herrmann's score to one of the finest ensemble casts (including Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane and Agnes Moorehead) ever assembled.
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, 1942, Warner Bros., 88 min. Director Orson Welles' poetic, tragic adaptation of Booth Tarkington's novel, centering on the fall of one wealthy family, with Stanley Cortez's dynamic camerawork providing a panorama of turn-of-the-century America and the decay of the old aristocracy.