A00136: The Greatest Movie of All Time: Citizen Kane? Yes, Citizen Kane!
Two weekends ago, I watched Vertigo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_(film) Vertigo is certainly an interesting movie ... a psychological thriller ... and Alfred Hitchcock was certainly at the top of his game. Additionally, it was great to see San Francisco back in the day when the streets were clean and uninhabited by tents. Nevertheless, in my assessment neither Vertigo nor Jeanne Dielman are better than the movie I watched last weekend ... Citizen Kane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane I have come to the conclusion that a century from now Citizen Kane will again be recognized as the greatest movie of all time. First of all, from a personal perspective, I consider Citizen Kane to be the greatest of all time partly because the screenplay was written by Herman Mankiewicz while he was confined in a very familiar desert ranch abode in my hometown of Victorville, California. An Oscar nominated film about the time that Mankiewicz spent in Victorville writing Citizen Kane