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Oscar Futures: Is It Time to Start Worrying About Mank? It's Oscar campaign season and prestige pictures are jockeying for position. Directors are granting predictably fawning interviews . . . https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/christopher-nolan-warner-bros-tenet/2020/12/14/3974ca82-3e07-...

Welles told that to Barbra Leaming as well, and she put it in her Welles book. Houseman undoubtedly heard about it. Here's the schism from Houseman's point of view, when he appeared on The South Bank Show, two years after Welles's death: https://vimeo.com/114983081 Has anyone ever seen the Merv Gri...

I'll take the credit-stealing Welles of Marcy Kahan's Victorville over this mess. Hard pass. Ah Victorville, haven't heard that in awhile. Good program; I'll have to give it another listen in light of the new film. Apparently it' s not at the BBC site right now, maybe it will come back. I would hop...

More Tarkington than Welles, but locals say this was the house Tarkington wrote about.
Owned at one time by the Traction King!
https://historicindianapolis.com/preser ... re-street/

Read of its fate and try not to think Riff raff!

I wonder if Welles ever saw FIFTH AVENUE GIRL from 1938, where Tim Holt co-stars opposite Ginger Rogers as a snotty scion of an aristocratic family in New York. The role is not unlike George Amberson Minafer, so Holt already had some experience at this kind of thing. "You leave my mother out o...

Mark Kermode gives it the Willy Loman verdict--liked but not well-liked--and demolishes the premise.
And this may be Charles Dance's run at an Oscar.
At 1:25:11
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ppyz

Looking at the t-shirt they could have used better images of Dorothy Comingore & George Coulouris. Yeah, I'd say; it appears the photo they used of Everett Sloane is from nearly twenty years after Kane was released, and the one of Paul Stewart also dates from about fifteen years later. Reeks of...

atcolomb wrote:There is a great hour long documentary "Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann" (1992). I have the dvd but it would have been nice if TCM got the rights to broadcast it.

Everything is on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/QD0Aj9ZCm4g

Sole regret about dropping cable is that I can't get TCM. https://www.tcm.com/articles/Scorsese%20Screens/020868/scorsese-screens-picks-for-december This December, TCM is doing a month-long salute to Bernard Herrmann, who has come up quite often in this column: he’s an essential figure in film histo...

This classic scene in CK is now especially topical. https://www.indy100.com/article/trump-us-election-citizen-kane-9724414 In this case DT is claiming both headlines: both victory and fraud. Carringer shows a still from "You Only Live Once" of three headlines for the verdict in Fonda's tr...

Very good article by Joseph McBride and i still want to see MANK when it comes out on Netflix. Have the dvd of RKO 281 but's it's been years since i have seen it so i will have to give it another look soon. Do you remember anything of it? Me neither, and why would you want to rewatch an unmemorable...

There's a long article on Fincher and Mank in the NYT Magazine, probably paywalled: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/magazine/david-fincher-mank-interview.html The enthusiastic author describes him as America’s most famously exacting director . I can think of a few other pretenders to that title b...

In fact, "Raising Kane" was shamelessly reprinted without corrections in Kael's last collection, FOR KEEPS: 30 YEARS AT THE MOVIES. Thanks. I knew it was omitted from her Library of America volume--due to space was the cited reason--so it seems the friend who edited it had a stronger sens...

Wellesnet looks at how MANK perpetuate the Pauline Kael lie that Orson Welles did not co-author the CITIZEN KANE screenplay. https://www.wellesnet.com/mank-finds-villain-orson-welles/ The story goes that after the Bogdanovich/Welles article came out in Esquire, Kael asked Woody Allen what she could...

A little less enchanted . . .
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mank ... eview-2020

And an assortment of reviews.
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/ar ... -the-year/