I love each of those movies you mentioned, but just to clarify you came to know and love those movies as an adult, correct? At least as a teenager because I would find it hard to believe a young child would sit down and be enthralled by Citizen Kane.
Yes, I came to love those movies when I was in college. I took a course on film and we watched alot of cool movies like
Rear Window, Citizen Kane, King Kong (the 1934 original), The Searchers and Blade Runner (another of my all time favorites, but I fell in
love with that on cable before college) and then we did group discussions and analysis on them, their themes, what the directors and
writers were trying to do, what kind of story was being told ect. I got to be on the team that lead the Blade Runner discussion
which thrilled me to no end.
Watching and looking at so many classic movies made me fall in love and apprecaite them. Rear Window was my first exposure to
the world of Alfred Hitchcock and I proceded to get my hands on some of his other classic movies like Northwest, Vertigo,
Dial M For Murder and Psycho (which I had never watched before) and I liked them all.
My love for The Marx Brothers came about in college as well, because I attended college at SUNY Fredonia in Fredonia, NY. The small town
that just happens to share the name of the fictional country in their classic Duck Soup. (although its spelled Freedonia in the movie)
They used to have a Marx Brothers film festival each year and show some of their movies, with the main one being Duck Soup of course,
I found this out while working at the school library. So I found they had the VHS copies of some of their films in the library, checked them
out and I was hooked. I was blown away by how funny Duck Soup was.
Thankfully my mother is also a fan of the Marx Brothers and we got to watch many of their movies together over the years. Two years ago
for Christmas I bought her the Marx Brothers DVD box set that starts with Night at the Opera so she could enjoy them for years to come.
Earlier this year I bought Ben Hur on DVD, another classic I've never seen, I haven't found the time to watch it yet but I look foward
to it, my parents both love it.
So yeah, I didn't get into those classic movies untill I was much older.