Unbloodybelievable...what a fantastic film.

I cant believe I had hadn't watched it sooner.
Whats probably more surprising is how I have managed to avoid finding out about "Rosebud" for so long.

Anyone else love this movie?
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This movie does not end up on 'best of ever'-lists so often for nothing.

It brings together story and image in probably one of the best acted movies ever. I love it.

HamsterHuey said:

Absolutely!!!
What I also loved about it was its pace,it was quick.Scenes had loads of dialogue(Tarantino totally influenced by this).It was beautifully filmed and so easy on the eye....i could go on and on.

I heard this was the best American film ever made.

So I downloaded it from a torrent site. Well, the torrent was actually a spoof Porno movie called Citizen Shane. I posted a lengthy blog review of Citizen "Shane" on my myspace once so as not to have wasted all that time waiting on the download for nothing.


I still want to see Citizen "Cane" though, and now thanks to this thread, doubly so.

never saw it...

but I have watched every John Hughes movie ever made atleast 20 times each...

I really need to see Citizen Kane one day...

roodboi said:

Buy Empire magazine (with Watchmen on the cover) as it has an article on Hughes in it. Iteresting read.

Imago said:

Just buy the bleeding DVD. Or come to Amsterdam and watch mine.

HamsterHuey said:

DVD, you hear me. I was talking about the DVD.

HamsterHuey said:

I'm totally down for this.

Imago said:

You, me, that bald fella and Lars, schnaps, beer and booz.

Wanna know what's even more amazing? Orson Welles was 26 years old when he made that film. Twenty-friggin'-six. And it consistently tops the "best films of all time" lists.

Oh - and it co-stars Joseph Cotten - one of my favorite actors.

i guess what makes this film a really big deal is how it was on the cutting edge of cinematography for its time. and a lot of the techniques used for this film became common or standard in the film industry afterwards. it wasn't just the story line that made it one of the best movies ever.

whats more interesting than the movie itself, for me, is the back story.

Im a film student and the past 2 weeks we've been studying the movie.


The entire movie is making fun of real well known man and his mistress. the rosebud in the movie is actually what the real man called his mistresses "vagina" So basically the whole movie isa big F.U. to hollywood, thus almost ending orsonwelles career.


I dont have the names right now but thats basically whats going on. the whole movie is one big inside joke.

magnificentsynthesizer said:

Oh, no question about that! In particular, the low angle at which many of the scenes were shot was groundbreaking - because it showed the ceiling. It was (by all accounts) absolute hell either superimposing the ceiling or trying to light by another means so the set could have an actual ceiling.

Welles was a mad genius - there's very little dispute about that.

Nvncible1 said:

William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies.

Haven't seen this yet myself. I actually recorded it once but the damn channel managed to broadcast the movie 20 minutes late, so it missed the ending. Didn't want to watch it without the ending, of course.

Genesia said:

yup thats what i had heard too,although Rosebud was her clitoris.
It makes so much sense now

muirdo said:

? HA HA!


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still haven't seen it.

magnificentsynthesizer said:

edit your shameful spoiler

calldapplwondery83 said:

You're hot

Imago said:

Tell me something new.

calldapplwondery83 said:

You are cordially invited to a private screening...

calldapplwondery83 said:

You smell of mansex.

calldapplwondery83 said:

I may be in Germany next year. I know you're straight, but I'm only interested in staring.

You should be there.

Imago said:

You seem to have this issue quite often Dan. I would def check your computer...I think you have gay spyware installed somehow.

HamsterHuey said:

Got some Ingmar Bergman, too? Haven't seen any of his either and they're supposed to be fantastic.
Last one I have seen was 'There Will Be Blood'. Amazing.
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HamsterHuey said:

I smell like your dreams come true.

Imago said:

I will try to have some free time.