Citizen Kane has been heralded as perhaps the greatest movie ever made for quite a while now. Lots of people have opinions on that, of course, and it's not like any one person is right. Despite ...

Orson Welles, already an institution at the age of 25, arrives at the 1941 premiere of his masterpiece. United Archives GMBH / Alamy When Citizen Kane premiered on May 1, 1941, it wasn’t at some ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...