Reel Deep Dive

Citizen Kane (1941)


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The first episode of a podcast usually involves people struggling with the audio equipment (and there's some of that here). So, with that in mind, it's probably unfair to expect the maiden voyage of a movie podcast to have a firm sense of identity in place.


Knowing that we're still figuring things out, we thought that we'd start things off with the simple topic of what's allegedly the greatest film of all time (insert sarcasm gif here).

Join Ryan Valentine and Rachel Bolton as they deconstruct Orson Welles' 1941 magnum opus. Talking points will include Citizen Kane's many technical innovations, the most prominent thematic motifs of the story, the debatable utility of labels like "greatest of all time", and how President Donald Trump claims to love this movie while missing the central irony of a guy like him doing so.

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