Tag: Rosebud

May 26, 2010 / / Main Slate Archive

By Peggy Nelson

Citizen Kane – 1941 – dir. Orson Welles

“Rosebud:” possibly the most famous single word in cinema.

Orson Welles was only 25 when he made Citizen Kane (1941), consistently nominated as the greatest film ever made.  Said to be based not-so-loosely on the lives of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and the comedienne Marion Davies, and often taken as a psychological study of Welles himself, Citizen Kane traces a classic American rags-to-riches trajectory, as it examines the true cost of getting everything you want.

June 22, 2009 / / Main Slate Archive

Coraline – 2009 – dir. Henry Selnick

“You probably think this world is a dream come true… but you’re wrong.”

From the minds of Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Neil Gaiman (Sandman, American Gods), with musical accompaniment by They Might Be Giants comes Coraline, a dark, enchanting fable about the worlds we see and the worlds we want.