They must be cleaning out the closets at Xanadu: Another “Citizen Kane” jacket is on the auction block. The gray and black herringbone suit jacket was worn by Orson Welles in the scene where Charles Foster Kane meets future wife Susan Alexander, played by Dorothy Comingore.
Classic film fans can look forward to seeing “Citizen Kane” in theaters again, courtesy of TCM Big Screen Classics and Fathom Events. Look for two showings in September.
From the archives, a sampling of the favorable notices that greeted the release of Orson Welles’ first Hollywood film on May 1, 1941. The trade paper Variety wrote of its young director-star: “Welles has found the screen as effective for his unique showmanship as radio and the theatre.”
“Citizen Kane VR” is a virtual reality project launched at the University of Michigan — home to a massive collection of Orson Welles’ papers. A team of programmers and 3D artists have already re-created one of the Xanadu sets,
Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have solved a “Citizen Kane” mystery that has perplexed film scholars just in time for the landmark film’s 80th anniversary on May 1.
With the 80th anniversary of the Orson Welles masterpiece fast approaching, Nicolas Falacci, co-creator of the television series “NUMB3RS,” recently related a story about Turner Entertainment’s restoration of the RKO Pictures film for its 50th anniversary back in 1991.
Beatrice Welles — whose father, Orson Welles, produced, starred, directed and co-wrote “Citizen Kane” — sees Netflix’s “Mank” as a slap in the face of the late maverick filmmaker.
In 2020, fans saw the release of “Hopper/Welles” and Orson Welles’ radio work repurposed in a best-selling hip hop album.
Even a contemporary director with as fine and as comprehensive an understanding of film-making as David Fincher, is still subject to the same myths about Orson Welles.
Film historian Joseph McBride, who penned “Rough Sledding with Pauline Kael” in 1971, graciously offered to revisit the authorship of Citizen Kane for Wellesnet after screening David Fincher’s new Netflix movie Mank — the latest in a string of unflattering film portrayals of Orson Welles.
Welles once noted of his self-destructive screenwriting partner: “Mank always needed a villain.” The same can be said of the movie that bears his nickname.
Harlan Lebo, author of “Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey,” has unveiled his painstaking research into the hundreds of differences between the landmark movie’s final script and what ended up on the screen.
Veteran critic Todd McCarthy says Welles will “have to suffer a few more slings and arrows flung by those who will automatically buy into the view that he had nothing to do with the writing of ‘Citizen Kane’.”
Noted author Harlan Lebo has provided Orson Welles fans with something special as the 80th anniversary of “Citizen Kane” nears — a new transcript of the landmark film.
A bottle, not a snow globe falls, from the hand of a drunken Herman J. Mankiewicz in the trailer for David Fincher’s “Mank.”
“In the eight weeks between the time the Victorville material passed into Welles’ hands and the final draft was completed, the Citizen Kane script was transformed, principally by him, from a solid basis for a story into an authentic plan for a masterpiece. Not even the staunchest defenders of Mankiewicz would deny that Welles was […]
Director David Fincher (The Social Network) has completed filming on Mank, a movie based on the life of Citizen Kane co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz. A release date has yet to be confirmed but it should arrive on Netflix later this year. According to the streaming giant, the movie will follow the “tumultuous development of Orson […]
Tom Burke will play Orson Welles opposite Gary Oldman’s Herman J. Mankiewicz in the forthcoming David Fincher movie Mank. Burke has appeared in the BBC productions The Musketeers, War & Peace, and Strike. Amanda Seyfried has been cast as publisher William Randolph Hearst’s paramour, actress Marion Davies; and Lilly Collins will play Rita Alexander, Mankiewicz’s secretary, […]
By RAY KELLY Herman J. Mankiewicz co-wrote Citizen Kane and his kid brother, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, scripted and directed All About Eve — not too shabby for the sons of a school teacher and seamstress who left Germany for the United States shortly before the start of the 20th century. Sydney Ladensohn Stern — author […]
Updated on September 26: The jacket failed to sell at auction, according to the Profiles in History website. ____ A jacket worn by Orson Welles in the landmark film Citizen Kane is on the auction block in Los Angeles this month. The screen costume, featured in the scene where Charles Foster Kane performs with a […]
