My Son’s Thoughts on Citizen Kane

Is the “greatest film ever made” still relevant to Generation Z?

Simon Dillon
Fanfare
Published in
4 min readApr 6, 2022

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Credit: RKO/Warner Brothers

I have made it one of my missions in life to ensure my children are cine-literate. To that end, I recently showed my seventeen-year-old Orson Welles’s 1941 monochrome masterpiece Citizen Kane, frequently cited by critics as the greatest film ever made (or at least it was, until the last Sight &…

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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com