Citizen Kane

[Re-watch with Peter Bogdanovich's commentary track] Kind of fascinating to get such a laid back 'yeah, I knew the guy' approach to such a seminal work. Bogdanovich clearly did no prep for this commentary and vacillates between just sort of rambling about Orson Welles anecdotes that don't even relate to the film and playing sports announcer and stating what's on screen ("...and now it zooms in." "That's Everett Sloane") which is honestly great. A real departure from the Ebert commentary that practically serves as a film history course credit. The dominant mood of this commentary is that Citizen Kane is such an essential component of western society that we should all be aware already of how and why it changed filmmaking and so we might as well just shoot the shit over it and talk about nothing.