New additions to the countdown appear at the top. Full list is below… – Citizen Kane (1941) With nine Academy Award nominations, including picture, director (Orson Welles), actor (Welles again), and an actual win for the screenplay, the notion that after daring to take on media-mogul William Randolph Hearst, “Citizen Kane” was somehow radioactive in Hollywood is a bit overstated. What isn’t overstated is the magnificence of Welles’s film debut or his genius as an actor and director. One of my favorite half-minutes in all of moviedom: — — The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Unlike “Doctor Zhivago” and “Lawrence of Arabia,” David Lean’s “Bridge on the River Kwai” is an American film and therefore allowed on this list. Which makes me very happy Big themes (pride, obsession, duty, selflessness) set against the kind of non-CGI’d epic we will never see the likes of again. William Holden is
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