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Citizen Kane is overrated – but this Orson Welles classic isn’t
Orson Welles’s masterpiece was The Magnificent Ambersons, a thoughtful epic about American wealth and the motor car. But there’s a snag…
Anne Baxter arm in arm with Tim Holt in a scene from The Magnificent Ambersons
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I avoid lists of the 100 greatest books, plays, paintings or films because they are inevitably meaningless. People have short memories and so rank the more recent above the antique. If strict criteria exist for evaluating such things (and I doubt they can, except at the extremes of the obviously good and the obviously awful), no two respondents to such surveys interpret them in the same way. And if somebody can tell me how, and why, Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending is superior either to Elgar’s First Symphony or Parry’s Jerusalem (which, according to Classic FM’s preposterous annual “chart”, its audience thinks it is), then please do: it isn’t ....

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