“Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.”

— Pauline Kael

"Raising Kane" http://www.paulrossen.com/paulinekael/raisingkane.html, The New Yorker (1971-02-20 and 1971-02-27); reprinted in Kael's The Citizen Kane Book (1971).

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