‘Citizen Kane’ 80th anniversary Blu-ray in the works
The 80th anniversary of Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” is upon us, and while there has been no official word of a commemorative Blu-ray set, a release with extras is now in the works.
Another ‘Citizen Kane’ jacket on auction block
They must be cleaning out the closets at Xanadu: Another “Citizen Kane” jacket is on the auction block. The gray and black herringbone suit jacket was worn by Orson Welles in the scene where Charles Foster Kane meets future wife Susan Alexander, played by Dorothy Comingore.
‘Citizen Kane’ returning to theaters via Fathom, TCM
Classic film fans can look forward to seeing “Citizen Kane” in theaters again, courtesy of TCM Big Screen Classics and Fathom Events. Look for two showings in September.
‘Citizen Kane’ at 80; look back at the 1941 reviews
From the archives, a sampling of the favorable notices that greeted the release of Orson Welles’ first Hollywood film on May 1, 1941. The trade paper Variety wrote of its young director-star: “Welles has found the screen as effective for his unique showmanship as radio and the theatre.”
‘Citizen Kane VR’ – University of Michigan creates virtual reality Xanadu
“Citizen Kane VR” is a virtual reality project launched at the University of Michigan — home to a massive collection of Orson Welles’ papers. A team of programmers and 3D artists have already re-created one of the Xanadu sets,
‘Citizen Kane’ mystery solved 80 years later — and it’s not ‘Rosebud’
Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have solved a “Citizen Kane” mystery that has perplexed film scholars just in time for the landmark film’s 80th anniversary on May 1.
Negative for ‘Citizen Kane’ may be lost forever
With the 80th anniversary of the Orson Welles masterpiece fast approaching, Nicolas Falacci, co-creator of the television series “NUMB3RS,” recently related a story about Turner Entertainment’s restoration of the RKO Pictures film for its 50th anniversary back in 1991.
Beatrice Welles joins chorus of ‘Mank’ critics
Beatrice Welles — whose father, Orson Welles, produced, starred, directed and co-wrote “Citizen Kane” — sees Netflix’s “Mank” as a slap in the face of the late maverick filmmaker.
2020 in review: New Orson Welles movie, chart-topping rap album appearance
In 2020, fans saw the release of “Hopper/Welles” and Orson Welles’ radio work repurposed in a best-selling hip hop album.
Deflating myths about Orson Welles
Even a contemporary director with as fine and as comprehensive an understanding of film-making as David Fincher, is still subject to the same myths about Orson Welles.
Mank and the Ghost of Christmas Future
Film historian Joseph McBride, who penned “Rough Sledding with Pauline Kael” in 1971, graciously offered to revisit the authorship of Citizen Kane for Wellesnet after screening David Fincher’s new Netflix movie Mank — the latest in a string of unflattering film portrayals of Orson Welles.
‘Mank’ finds its villain in Orson Welles, the man who made ‘Citizen Kane’
Welles once noted of his self-destructive screenwriting partner: “Mank always needed a villain.” The same can be said of the movie that bears his nickname.
Harlan Lebo delves into differences between ‘Citizen Kane’ script, finished film
Harlan Lebo, author of “Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey,” has unveiled his painstaking research into the hundreds of differences between the landmark movie’s final script and what ended up on the screen.
‘Mank’ fails to give Orson Welles his due as ‘Kane’ co-writer, critic says
Veteran critic Todd McCarthy says Welles will “have to suffer a few more slings and arrows flung by those who will automatically buy into the view that he had nothing to do with the writing of ‘Citizen Kane’.”
‘Citizen Kane’ transcript improved, now available online
Noted author Harlan Lebo has provided Orson Welles fans with something special as the 80th anniversary of “Citizen Kane” nears — a new transcript of the landmark film.
‘Mank’ trailer is a homage to ‘Citizen Kane’ (video)
A bottle, not a snow globe falls, from the hand of a drunken Herman J. Mankiewicz in the trailer for David Fincher’s “Mank.”
‘Mank’ script: Netflix film may echo Pauline Kael’s ‘Raising Kane’
“In the eight weeks between the time the Victorville material passed into Welles’ hands and the final draft was completed, the Citizen Kane script was transformed, principally by him, from a solid basis for a story into an authentic plan for a masterpiece. Not even the staunchest defenders of Mankiewicz would deny that Welles was […]
Principal photography wraps on Netflix biopic ‘Mank’
Director David Fincher (The Social Network) has completed filming on Mank, a movie based on the life of Citizen Kane co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz. A release date has yet to be confirmed but it should arrive on Netflix later this year. According to the streaming giant, the movie will follow the “tumultuous development of Orson […]
Tom Burke cast as Orson Welles in ‘Mank’
Tom Burke will play Orson Welles opposite Gary Oldman’s Herman J. Mankiewicz in the forthcoming David Fincher movie Mank. Burke has appeared in the BBC productions The Musketeers, War & Peace, and Strike. Amanda Seyfried has been cast as publisher William Randolph Hearst’s paramour, actress Marion Davies; and Lilly Collins will play Rita Alexander, Mankiewicz’s secretary, […]
‘Brothers Mankiewicz’ looks at achievements, relationship of Hollywood siblings
By RAY KELLY Herman J. Mankiewicz co-wrote Citizen Kane and his kid brother, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, scripted and directed All About Eve — not too shabby for the sons of a school teacher and seamstress who left Germany for the United States shortly before the start of the 20th century. Sydney Ladensohn Stern — author […]