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This film will be on Netflix this fall. "Mank" along with Aaron Sorkin's 'The Trial of the Chicago 7', will be heavily promoted in October. "Mank" is likely to wrongly leave millions of viewers with the impression that Orson Welles stole the Oscar winning screenplay credit for Ci...

Filming on "Mank" wrapped in February of 2020. The New York Times wrote: "Netflix might be tempted to push year-end awards films like David Fincher’s “Mank” and Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy” into 2021." I think that over time, Awards films have more influence on popular percepti...

I think that this new film could be a danger to the truth about the authorship of Citizen Kane. This is not an amateur home movie. This an established director and he is using major talent. For those reasons, the theme of the film will be given credibility. The impact of Carringer's excellent schola...

Welles filmed in a Turkish Bath when he did not have costumes In the same spirit, did he have the blackout at the party to avoid having to light the scenes, or was it perhaps because he was going to use different locations to shoot the party scenes and he wanted it to be easier to integrate them int...

I live in Southern California and I have a question about theater screenings the week of Nov. 2nd for "The Other Side of The Wind".

Has there been any word yet on which theater(s?) in Southern California will be screening the film?

Sorry Ray,
I have not seen the documentary yet
Lee

Really like this article from indiewire on the technical considerations in finishing TOSOTW: "‘The Other Side of the Wind’: How to Salvage an Unfinished Orson Welles Movie Without Orson Welles" "Behind the scenes of the unprecedented restoration: How digital technology was used to sol...

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In addition to directing the film, Tim Robbins wrote a good book on the history of The Federal Theater and Blitzstein's Cradle.

I'd like to see Touchstone do some kind of update on the movie.

I'm a big fan of Tim Robbins' "Cradle Will Rock"

Does anyone know if it is going to be re-issued?

"Everything I know About Editing I learned from this Film"

from "Every Frame A Painting"

"F for Fake (1973) - How to Structure a Video Essay"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GXv2C7vwX0

Movie Clips, which gets the rights to post clips from films legally on YouTube, has posted clips in HD of Kane:
Citizen Kane - How to Run a Newspaper Scene (3/10) | Movieclips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9OUZNicTGU