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  • To paraphrase Citizen Kane, pleasing irrelevance, as it must to all cities in a de-centralized world, came to New York.

    Kent Jones: Lost World Of New York Art 2009

  • Hazanavicius pays homage to numerous sources - everything from Citizen Kane to Sunset Boulevard, from Singing in the Rain to A Star is Born.

    Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Artist Marshall Fine 2011

  • It is indeed toe-curlingly bad – from teens who really should have written stuff down before committing lines such as "Ima ride my bike in the motor life" to a webcam and making "stupidly random" raps with bad British accents, to TV commercials that make R Kelly's Trapped In The Closet video look like Citizen Kane.

    Internet picks of the week 2011

  • The "should" queue typically contains a film like Citizen Kane ,which users think they must watch in order to be well-rounded; yet the less aspirational self ends up watching Miss Congeniality for a fifth time on DVD.

    George Mocharko: Review: The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, by Eli Pariser George Mocharko 2011

  • When it was over, Nicole said, Did you know that Citizen Kane was about William Randolph Hearst?

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • I started to play Jeopardy! but was finished with the test before I discovered what film beat Citizen Kane for the Best Picture Oscar in 1942.

    Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

  • William Randolph Hearst's outrageous activities are the subject of what has long been considered America's finest film, Citizen Kane.

    Karl Grossman: Murdoch Media Empire: A Journalistic Travesty Karl Grossman 2011

  • I started to play Jeopardy! but was finished with the test before I discovered what film beat Citizen Kane for the Best Picture Oscar in 1942.

    Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

  • But suddenly, in 1941, Orson Welles entered the scene with Citizen Kane, a picture that fractured chronological narrative and constantly changed points of view while presenting a lightly fictionalised, highly critical life of the press tycoon William Randolph Hearst.

    The Iron Lady – review 2012

  • When it was over, Nicole said, Did you know that Citizen Kane was about William Randolph Hearst?

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

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