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I am tempted to buy it and i do have a all region Blu-ray player. But there is a good chance that Criterion will release their version on Blu-ray and i hope this year. I might wait for some reviews on it and for now i do have the nice looking French Blu-ray released by Carlotta. The Carlotta BD Ark...

The answer might not make you happy. Nick Falacci, co-creator of the television series "NUMB3RS," recently related a story about a past restoration effort. https://www.wellesnet.com/citizen-kane-negative/ I am trying to remember the 6 seconds described in that article as a "section t...

I=Eye wrote:

sly
/slī/
adjective
having or showing a cunning and deceitful nature.

The word is also defined as "wise in practical affairs" and "displaying cleverness", but I will certainly accept your definition in this specific instance.

When the interviewer mentioned his grandfather co-wrote Citizen Kane , Ben Mankiewicz made it clear his grandfather wrote Citizen Kane . BM was very sly, saying OW knew to hire people who has expertise in fields where he had none, like cinematography, composing, etc. and of course writing. Glossing...

I saw an ad today on CNN about the next episode of their The Movies series, called "The Golden Age", and it will feature a segment on Citizen Kane . I do not know how extensive it will be, but it does include Bogdanovich as one of the people interviewed. Previous episodes in the series hav...

So there is a version that is entirely Welles? Robert Carringer's essay "The Scripts of Citizen Kane" reviews each phase of the very involved writing process. He was able to examine the surviving drafts and the various letters and memos that were generated; he identifies which contributio...

It's always chilling when a institution devoted (theoretically at least) to higher learning decides to erase history instead of putting it in context or explaining it. It's probably easier to do it that way than to do the hard work of engaging the few protesters and the rest of the community in a di...

Very atmospheric image; it looks like this project is going to be a very involved labour of love. Have you already determined how you will make this reconstruction available to the public? As for the previous ones, is the Roger Ryan version available to watch anywhere online? I cannot locate it, but...

The book is now available on Amazon.ca; it was not when I checked 1 or 2 weeks ago. The marketplace vendor is Vervante itself and when I ordered the Two Cheers for Hollywood book this way it took about 2 weeks to get here. It is less expensive for Canadians to order from Amazon.ca rather than from A...

Please explain what you mean by writing this quizzical comment, that "the Irish accent often introduced a comical character to the text, probably unintended." A voice-over which evokes for me vocal echoes of Barry Fitzgerald in "Going My Way" or "The Quiet Man" cannot ...

Any idea if Amazon.ca will eventually carry that title? They do list the other Vervante titles and that is where I purchased "Two Cheers From Hollywood" from.

It is indeed essentially fodder for the Welles cognoscenti and not an introduction to his work for the uninitiated. Despite all of the interesting material, I frequently found it difficult slogging because of the second-person narration which generally sounded like bad nouveau roman from the 50s and...

The Canadian schedule replaces Confidential Report with The Happy Road starring Grace Kelly. A question of rights perhaps or simply a mistake. The other Welles titles mentioned are all listed. Did Ben Mankiewicz introduce Citizen Kane the previous times it was shown on TCM and did he address the que...

I am sure that whoever was in charge of putting together this trailer squealed with joy when they were directed to that shot of Norman Foster and the films cans; it would have been impossible to contrive a more perfect way to end it in light of the past 40 years of waiting for the movie. Only three ...

I listened to Carringer when he appeared at Eastern Illinois University to celebrate Gregg Toland's centenary. His remarks about Welles were not positive Carringer is a rather puzzling case. He did some excellent work in the field of Welles scholarship, most notably his essential essay on the scrip...