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Citizen Kane was a financial flop during it's release in 1941, yet in a 1962 poll, the Sight & Sound magazine declared Citizen Kane to be the 'Greatest Film of All Time'. Did we ever learn what Orson Welles' reaction of the changing attitude towards his film was like?

by /u/King_Vercingetorix in /r/AskHistorians

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