Iconic filmmaker Orson Welles hit it “out of the park” with his first feature, which he produced, co-wrote, directed, and starred in: CITIZEN KANE.  This labyrinthine study of the life of a newspaper tycoon examines the scandalous and complicated legacy of Charles Foster Kane (Welles), and is loosely based on the lives of notable media barons of the era, including Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst (who famously prohibited any mention of the film in his newspapers).

“Orson Welles’s epic tale of a publishing tycoon’s rise and fall is entertaining, poignant, and inventive in its storytelling, earning its reputation as a landmark achievement in film.” (Rotten Tomatoes)

“It is a triumph of the film, and proof of its solid value and of the sense of its director and all concerned, that a human touch is not lost. Sympathy for the preposterous Mr. Kane survives. Indeed, there is something about him which seems admirable.” (The New Yorker)

Wednesday, August 19
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm
Advance tickets $15 HERE | $15 at the door

CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, 1941 / 119 mins / PG) Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.