Quote Originally Posted by Оля
I saw "Citizen Kane", and I've heard it's one of the best films in the world (if not the best), but it was sooooo very unbearably boring for me!
Oh Оля, I am so sorry you did not enjoy Citizen Kane. You might be happy to know that when it was first released it the film was a box office flop and at the 1941's Academy Awards it was booed every time one of its nine nominations was announced.

It might be that you need to be a "film" person to really understand the significance of the film and why it is so highly rated on all the best of lists. This was the first film that Orson Wells directed and he had complete autonomy and with that he broke a number of traditional rules for making a motion picture. I believe that is the reason the film is considered so important. You would need to look at the film from the techincal side not as an average viewer, which I admit, would make it VERY boring.

I do agree with you on Hitchcock (love his films), but of course he was born in England so I don't know if he would count as American Culture