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Why does Barry Norman describe Citizen Kane as "the (most influential) greatest film ever made"?
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Why does Barry Norman describe Citizen Kane as "the (most influential) greatest film ever made"? The film 'Citizen Kane' has been voted the greatest film ever by thousands of film critics and directors every year. It was very nearly not released because William Randolph Hearst believed that the film was based on his life, and that it was wrong of Welles to make a film about him. Hearst tried very hard to stop the release and through his newspaper tried to get people to boycott the film. Because of all this bad publicity it wasn't a commercial success until, it was re-released after the Second World War. The re-release was very successful though, and it reached Europe where it received great recognition as well. Time and time again 'Citizen Kane' has been voted the greatest and most influential film ever to be made and that ever will be made, by the...
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