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• The Online Community's Top 100 Movies

  Published: July 30, 2007, 1:31 pm

  Tags: 100 Greatest Movies, 100greatestmovies, Afi, Citizen Kane, Citizenkane, Godfather, List, Top 100, Top100

  here is that, for once, Citizen Kane is not the highest ranked film. The Godfather is in the number one spot here (don't worry Kaners, it's #2). No documentaries made the cut, and foreign films are in fairly short supply. The only two animated films on the list are Pixar -- Toy Story and The Incredibles. We all love the classics, but what

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• Compare 'The Simpsons' Image to the Film They're Referencing

  Published: September 25, 2007, 12:32 pm

  Tags: Actualidad Simpsons, Actualidadsimpsons, An Officer Gentleman, Anofficerandagentleman, Cinematical, Citizen Kane, Citizenkane, Film, Miracle On 34th Street, Miracleon34thstreet, Movie, One Flew Over The Cuckoo S Nest, Oneflewoverthecuckoo Snest, Psycho, Saboteur, The Sh

  Vertigo; The Graduate; Citizen Kane; Miracle on 34th Street; A Clockwork Orange; The Godfather, Part II; Goodfellas; Tom Jones; The Karate Kid; Psycho; Full Metal Jacket; The Longest Day; Apocalypse Now; Stripes; An Officer and a Gentleman; The Ten Commandments; North by Northwest and Saboteur. Additionally, the blog has posted small,

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• Peter Berg Developing a J. Paul Getty III Kidnap Movie

  Published: October 2, 2007, 6:32 am

  Tags: Bran Mak Morn, Branmakmorn, Cheung Fo, Cheungfo, Chris Clark, Chrisclark, Cinematical, Citizen Kane, Citizenkane, Film, Gone Like The Wind, Gonelikethewind, Hancock, J Paul Getty, J Paul Getty Iii, J Paulgetty, J Paulgettyiii, Lone Survivor, Lonesurvivor, Movie, Painfully Ri

  do you get when you cross Citizen Kane with Ruthless People? Something that sounds like the greatest movie ever, right? Well, we'll see if that's really what we get when Peter Berg makes a movie about the kidnapping of teenage heir J. Paul Getty III. According to Variety, the actor/director is developing a project based on John Pearson's book

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• Have Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars? Citizen Kane Oscar Will Be Auctioned

  Published: October 16, 2007, 7:32 am

  Tags: Citizen Kane, Citizenkane, Herman J Mankiewicz, Hermanj Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Orsonwelles, Oscar Auction, Oscar Statuette, Oscarauction, Oscarstatuette, Sotheby S

  is there left to say about Citizen Kane? It was not only Orson Welles' masterpiece, but it is also considered to be one of the best movies of all time. Charles Foster Kane, wonderfully played by Welles himself, was inspired by William Randolph Hearst -- the head of my favorite celebrity family. While many would put no film above it, Citizen

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• Yellow Journalism: The Golden Age of American News

  Published: November 7, 2007, 3:00 am

  Tags: Exclusive, Media, American Revolution, The New York Times, Newspapers, William Randolph Hearst, Orson Wells, Citizen Kane, Pulitzer

  Scandal-mongering! Sensationalism! Hyper-nationalism! Don't believe everything you read. The smearing of "Yellow Journalism" was nothing more than a "successful and semi-permanent power grab by elites that allowed them, and not the people, to control news for a century," writes Steve Boriss.

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• Citizen Kane Script Sells Big, Oscar Gets Snubbed at Sotheby's

  Published: December 12, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, Sotheby Amp 039 S Holdings Inc

  personal working script of Citizen Kane went for last night at a Sotheby's auction. An anonymous phone bidder nabbed the final revised draft (before the final shooting script was scribed) for $97,000. But the Oscar for the film was withdrawn from the bidding block when the Scrooges wouldn't even caught up a measely $800,000 (the statuette's

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• Who Wants a 'Citizen Kane' Oscar? No One!

  Published: December 12, 2007, 8:32 am

  Tags: Citizen Kane, Citizenkane, Orson Welles, Orsonwelles, Oscar Statues, Oscarstatues, Sotheby S

  Oscar won by the epic film Citizen Kane was about to go on the auction block. The event had been a long time coming. As the story goes, Orson Welles had given the statue to a cinematographer as payment. He held it in secrecy, and all thought it was lost until it popped up at a Sotheby's auction in 1994. Welles' daughter threw a fit, sued the

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• This is a great week to watch Turner Classic Movies

  Published: July 23, 2008, 3:42 pm

  Tags: Citizen Kane, Film Noir, Hour Of The Gun, Kiss Me Deadly, Lassie Come Home, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Rope, Science Fiction, Tcm, The Man From Planet X, The Sweet Smell Of Success, Turner Classic Movies, Westerns

  Filed under: Industry, Programming, Reality-Free Of course, every week is a great week to watch Turner Classic Movies. If you're not a regular viewer of TCM, you're really missing out. But looking over their schedule for tomorrow, I noticed several movies are playing that you really must see, especially if you haven't seen them before. In fact,

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