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Citizen Kane was written and directed by Orson Welles. This classic masterpiece was completed in the 1940’s. It uses film as an art form to energetically communicate and display a non-static view of life - its components include unconventional lighting, invent ....

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.... at a nightclub and questions her about Kane. She remembers that Kane "was really interested in my voice. What do you suppose he built that opera house for? I didn't want it. I didn't want to sing. It was his idea. Everything was his idea, except my leaving him." Her flashback tells of her singing lessons, her operatic career, and their final days together at Xanadu. Her ravaged face in the nightclub dissolves slowly to a scene of vocal lessons, where a younger Susan is viewed. She is forced to practice her singing with Matisti ....