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Comment on why Welles’ films created a <>in modern history of cinema? The French critic Andre Bazin once said about Orson Welles: “The date of his appearance in the filmic firmament (1941) marks more or less the beginning of a new period and also because his case is the most spectacular and, by virtue of his very excesses, the most significant.” The year remarkable is 1941, in which Welles made Citizen Kane, the most discussed — if not the greatest — American movie ever created. Citizen Kane remains Welles’ finest film, a treasure of cinematic metaphors and devices, and a portrait of an incredibly dramatic personality. It made striking use of techniques that had been largely forgotten or overlooked by other American filmmakers. Many