Most of you know that my decision to show this was based upon something I heard on the NPR show Freakonomics, which led me to suspect that many had not seen Orson Welle’s masterpiece, Citizen Kane, on the big screen. Well… it turned out to be a great decision, and CK played to a packed house. The parallels between Charles Kane’s and Donald Trump’s candidacies were chilling and prophetic (it is Trump’s favorite movie, of course), but there are few other similarities. Orson Welles’s character is eloquent and intelligent. The other… not so much.

Along with the many who had not seen this projected, there were a handful who had never seen it at all, or hadn’t finished watching it. The first half an hour or so can be a difficult watch (it’s newsreel format is quite dated and relentless), but once that [necessary] information has been absorbed, we are equipped to be mesmerized by the rest. Is Citizen Kane the best movie ever made (many film buffs attest to this)? To my mind, Casablanca still holds that title…

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