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One of those eminently readable creators of enjoyable works, damned as "middlebrow".

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With all the nominations i hope it will be released on disc and i hope Criterion will get the rights to do that. Only if Joe McBride does the commentary track. I needed a laugh after hearing of the nominations. Thanks! :D Actually, he could. There are independent commentaries for pictures, and he c...

atcolomb wrote:With all the nominations i hope it will be released on disc and i hope Criterion will get the rights to do that.

Only if Joe McBride does the commentary track.

10 Nominations
Best Picture
Best Director: David Fincher
Best Actor: Gary Oldman
Best Supporting Actress: Amanda Seyfried
Production Design
Costume Design
Cinematography: Erik Messerschmidt
Makeup and Hairstyling
Sound
Score

Specifically, Cotten's comparison of the original ending of Ambersons to Checkov refers to the extraordinary, low-key, sotto voce, life-goes-on, creaking rocking chairs ending of Uncle Vanya. Was this an inspiration for Welles? It is not as bleak as the Amberson ending, since it does not involve Fa...

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. https://www.criteri...

At NECSUS, I found an instructive video essay on Welles's "montage": "The Strange Streets of a Strange City: The Ambersons Montage" by Patrick Keating https://necsus-ejms.org/the-strange-streets-of-a-strange-city-the-ambersons-montage/ Interesting essay, as well as a pleasure se...

None of his books appear to have been translated. Seen this before with European mysteries--definite translation lag. If it's popular enough, there might be a TV series of his film star mysteries. There's a popular French mystery series, Blood of the Vine , whose sleuth is an oenologist. https://www...

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Not sure how complete, but that article you had to run down in the stacks of a university library may be more accessible now.
For instance:
https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_S ... 0/mode/2up

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7241-the-man-in-the-wings-david-fincher-on-the-shadowy-life-of-herman-mankiewicz The Man in the Wings: David Fincher on the Shadowy Life of Herman Mankiewicz By ​Sydney Ladensohn Stern JAN 14, 2021 Friendly interview of Fincher by the biographer of the Mankiew...

To the Editor: Olive Stanton, my half-sister, was in the original Broadway cast of ''The Cradle Will Rock'' in 1937 and is apparently a major character in Tim Robbins's new film, ''Cradle Will Rock.'' In David Schiff's article ''The Labor Pains of a Leftist Musical in an Angry Era'' [Dec. 5], she i...

However, I don't think a film based on historical events needs to necessarily be accurate to be enjoyable. For example, I thought the endings of Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, and INGLORIOUS BASTERDS were hilarious, even though they both make deliberate mincemeat of the real (more tragi...

I've heard a lot about Polanski's film, but I don't think it's available in America yet, for well-known reasons. I don't know when it will be. Until then, I'll take your word for it that it's faithful to the real story. As an admirer of Polanski's films (not him), I look forward to seeing it someti...

Yeah, the film takes some dramatic license for sure, but then, Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK was accused of doing the same thing ten years ago. I liked that film better than MANK. I finally ran down a copy of An Officer and a Spy/J'Accuse . Aside from some telescoping of time, it seems to be very cl...

The leftist publication, The Nation, weighs in on how ‘Mank’ Recovers the Radical Roots of ‘Citizen Kane’ : https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mank-welles-mankiewicz-kane/ Except it fell hook line and sinker for Mankiewicz's political awareness. But how accurate is that plot point beyond the...