INSTANT TRIVIA
FROM ITS FIRST shot — craning over a fence to reveal a spooky mansion — to its last — zeroing in on a furnace to reveal ‘Rosebud’ — Citizen Kane is crammed with indelible images. But if you were looking for one shot to stand in for all the brilliance of Orson Welles’ barnstorming 1941 debut, Kane’s electioneering speech at Madison Square Garden might just do the trick. Full of stylistic bravura, cinematic sleightof-hand, political smarts and a powerhouse of a performance, it is the movie in microcosm.