Today I watched Citizen Kane. Long hailed as the greatest movie...alway #1 on AFI's top 100. I don't think I'd call it my favorite, but one everyone should see. We watched this movie in one of my design classes (for the angles as well as the gray values). This is of course a black and white film, it's also said to have the best contrast--the richest black, the brightest white, with all of the grays in between keeping perfect definition. Orson Welles was adamant that this picture remain in it's original black and white. There was once controversy surrounding this when it was rumored that Ted Turner wanted to colorize Citizen Kane. Welles suggested that Turner to keep his crayolas away from his movie; he believed that black and white let the audience focus more on expressions and not so much on the details of clothes, backgrounds, etc. This was not the only controversy that was visited upon this movie. William Randolph Hearst showed great opposition...his life was supposedly the basis of the movie. ..from the publishing to Xanadu...yeah, pretty close. More Citizen Kane trivia.