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This is interesting: Over on broadcaster Keith Olbermann's Twitter feed (twitter.com/keitholbermann), he posts an entertaining series of tweets on Norman Lloyd, beginning at 4:30 on January 29. Also name checks Everett Sloane. Or should that be #EverettSloane?

Interesting piece on Beck in this week's BOSTON PHOENIX: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/91016 ... TOPCONTENT

Reading the linked-to blog post in the "Welles the Artist" thread in the "Film" forum (see link below), I got a kick out of seeing KANE referred to as "The Mount Olympus of Cinema." Kind of puts things in perspective, I guess...He also refers to AMBERSONS as "the c...

Yeah, this is an interesting phenomenon, and the other trite touchstone I immediately thought of was, "It's the SGT. PEPPER of...". Both KANE and PEPPER were relatively early works (that is to say, they seemed to sum up an early era) of an artform whose legitimacy was widely questioned ear...

Looking down the list of threads, I realized that I had never jotted down my impressions of the last evening, "Unfinished Works, Part Two," which I attended. Put me down as another fan of THE DREAMERS' "garden sequence." I find that, of the entire program, that's what has stuck w...

Thanks for the effort, Lance! I can't believe I sweated over a couple of spots on my list, only to have it end up so close to the status quo. As more time goes by, I wonder if the Criterion ARKADIN package will gradually drag it up a few notches in the canon (it eventually may for me; I ranked it at...

First saw it when I was in college in the early '80s. I wasn't expecting much; how good could it be? Some latter-day effort by the Master, past his prime, using "found" materials, self-referentially exploiting his cheesy "magician" persona (or so I thought at the time — now I app...

Yes, thanks, I had been intrigued when I first saw the titles onscreen, but, given the general popularity of the "Chimes at Midnight" title, I figured maybe there were different prints with different titles. In the original Bosley Crowther review now posted on the home page, he speaks of t...

I'm noticing a lot of folks here at Wellesnet referring to "Falstaff" rather than "Chimes at Midnight." Is "Falstaff" the preferred title? Apologies for the digression...

During the Corinth commentary, it's mentioned that Welles is believed to have done the editing of the first few scenes. Does anyone know exactly which scenes that includes? Also, I was struck by the comment someone made earlier in the thread, that the "masked" Welles in the credits makes m...

On the other hand, here's something to curl your toes — a clip of Patricia Medina guest-starring on the Man from U.N.C.L.E.:
http://www.dailymotion.com/search/David ... c?from=rss

I was all set to be a curmudgeon and hate the widescreen version, but after a few viewings, I find myself appreciating some aspects of the visual compositions I never noticed before. Has any tech-savvy type tried doing a mock-up of what some of these disputed screen shots would look like in 1.66? Ju...

The quick answer to your inquiry, "ZenKaneCity", is that the shot of Vargas talking with Menzies after the attempted acid attack is, indeed, the only footage included in the THEATRICAL cut that was not found in the PREVIEW version. Yes, thanks, I guess the blurbs I've seen around citing t...

I'll play... 1. Citizen Kane 2. Magnificent Ambersons 3. Touch of Evil (I'll admit to still preferring the Preview version, but I'm getting a kick out of the novelty of seeing it in widescreen, and fascinated by the suggestion that 1.66 might be an interesting compromise...) 4. Chimes at Midnight 5....

Hello,

I've been looking for a run-down of exactly which shots were included in the Theatrical version, but not the Preview. I know of the part where Heston returns after chasing the guy who threw acid at him, but what else was there?

Thanks much -