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When you make a film like “Citizen Kane” as your first feature as a filmmaker, people are going to throw tons of acclaim your way. And that’s exactly what happened with Orson Welles after the release of his masterpiece, which many still consider one of the greatest films of all time.

David Fincher’s portrait of the “Citizen Kane” screenwriter is pretty but baffling, an origin story with little to offer under its shiny surface.

Before we begin, it should be noted that reviews for David Fincher‘s much anticipated new film “Mank” are currently embargoed. In that context, we’re only here to just discuss the “Netflix International Pictures” release as a potential Oscar contender.

David Fincher‘s “Mank,” is a black and white prestige drama starring Gary Oldman about the writing and making of legendary filmmaker Orson Welles‘ “Citizen Kane” — often considered one of the greatest movies of all time and it looks unlike anything the filmmaker has made before, much more in a “serious-drama” rather than than the genre films he usually makes.

Todd McCarthy At the time, in November 1970, it must have seemed like an ideal match, a meeting of renegade titans: Orson Welles, the long-ago boy genius of theater and films who never got a job directing in Hollywood after 1958, and Dennis Hopper, whose out-of-nowhere smash with Easy Rider in 1969 made him the boy wonder of the hippie age and ostensible leader of a new wave of counterculture movies.Just as Welles had cratered from a Hollywood-career perspective, Hopper hit the rocks with his

The first trailer David Fincher new movie Mank is finally here!

“It’s breathtaking, even by David Fincher standards,” said “The Social Network” screenwriter Aaron Sorkin yesterday on the just-released Happy Sad Confused podcast, about Fincher’s new movie “Mank.” And that’s a hell of an endorsement to lead the way for today’s trailer unveiling of “Mank,” a black and white prestige drama starring Gary Oldman about the writing and making of legendary filmmaker Orson Welles‘ “Citizen Kane” — often considered one of the greatest movies of all time.

Netflix film Mank has just been released – check it out below.The anticipated drama tells the story of Citizen Kane writer Herman J. Mankiewicz as he battles to finish the screenplay.Gary Oldman stars as Mankiewicz, opposite Tom Burke as Orson Welles.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorMank, David Fincher’s movie about Oscar winning Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his tumultuous development of the Orson Welles’ classic, will hit Netflix on Dec.

PARIS -- Michael Lonsdale, an enigmatic giant of the silver screen and theater in France who worked with some of the world’s top directors in an acting career that spanned 60 years, died Monday at 89, his agent said.From his role as the villain in the 1979 James Bond film “Moonraker” to that of a French monk in Algeria in the 2011 movie “Of Gods and Men,” Lonsdale acted, often in brilliant supporting roles, under top directors including Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Francois Truffaut and Louis

Michael Lonsdale was a French actor whose notable roles included Hugo Drax, the villain in the 1979 James Bond film “Moonraker.”Lonsdale’s acting career took place largely in Europe, where he appeared in dozens of movies, TV shows, and stage productions. Yet he worked with legendary U.S.

Of Gods and Men, 2010), as one of a group of Trappist monks living in rural Algeria. “I’d vowed never to accept another role as a priest,” Lonsdale said, “but I couldn’t resist playing this wonderful, generous character.”It was Orson Welles who first cast Lonsdale as a priest, in The Trial (1962).

Choose your fighter: Orson Welles, recently back in LA after a decade of European exile, and embarking on a project so meta he will emulate the film’s director-protagonist and die at 70 never having finished it; or Dennis Hopper, mere days after the end of an 8-day marriage, struggling to edit the metafiction that will kill his directorial career for nearly a decade? The documentary, “Hopper/Welles,” cutely credited to Welles as director, but put together by “The Other Side of the Wind” producer

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticDennis Hopper meets Orson Welles: That sounds like an oil-and-water match-up of legendary filmmakers. Welles, for all his renegade gusto, was a defrocked classicist — maybe (or maybe not) the greatest film director who ever lived, and one who became the ultimate high-toned Hollywood dropout.

Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” is generally regarded as one of the best — if not the best — movie ever made, and a new film from acclaimed director David Fincher explores the tumultuous making of the 1941 cinematic classic.

David Fincher has directed the upcoming movie Mank, marking his first feature film since 2014′s Gone Girl.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe first look at David Fincher’s highly anticipated drama “Mank” was revealed Saturday to coincide with the 79th anniversary of “Citizen Kane’s” wide theatrical opening.The film is Fincher’s first feature directing effort since 2014’s “Gone Girl” and chronicles Herman Mankiewicz’s (Gary Oldman) race to finish the “Citizen Kane” screenplay for Orson Welles (Tom Burke).Fincher shot on location at Kemper Campbell Ranch in Victorville, Calif., where Mankiewicz spent

It’s been a long time coming, but fans of David Fincher, or Orson Welles‘ classic “Citizen Kane” finally have their first official look at the upcoming drama “Mank.” Though we still don’t have a specific release date other than Fall 2020, we at least get a look at how Fincher’s latest film will look.

Whenever you hear about a famous meeting of the minds, many people will say they wish they were a fly on the wall to listen in to what was being said.

In light of the slew of canceled film festivals in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s New York Film Festival is hoping to pull out all the stops and become the premier film event in the US. And as a way of showing what that means, the NYFF organizers announced the Spotlight section for this year’s fest.

Two years ago, Orson Welles’ unfinished film, “The Other Side of the Wind,” made its debut during the fall film festival circuit. The feature was accompanied by an entire documentary about the making of the film.

The pandemic is awful, obviously, but there have been some highlights inspired by it. One of those highpoints is Team Deakins, the podcast that legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins—known for his work with the Coen Brothers, Martin Scorsese, and Denis Villeneuve, among many others—started with his wife and digital workflow consultant James Ellis Deakins.

The world’s oldest film festival will be the first to happen physically since the coronavirus pandemic began. This morning in Rome, the line-up of the forthcoming 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival was announced in full, six weeks ahead of its planned opening.

The other day I spoke with my great old friend Norman Lloyd, and I do mean great and I do mean old. As an actor, Norman’s credentials stretch back to the Federal Theater days of the mid-1930s — he’s the last surviving member of Orson Welles’ legendary 1937 Mercury Theater production of Julius Caesar — and he made his Hollywood debut as the villain who falls to his death from the top of the Statue of Liberty in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1942 Saboteur.

By Pat Saperstein

It turns out Flavor Flav wasn’t actually kicked out of Public Enemy after a political dispute over Bernie Sanders. Today, the pioneering hip-hop group’s leader Chuck D released a statement on its website revealing the hoax, while also promoting Public Enemy Radio’s new album, Loud Is Not Enough. Public Enemy Radio is an offshoot of the group without Flav in the lineup.

Orson Welles crafted the menacing noir of “Touch of Evil” and “The Lady from Shanghai,”  yet nothing the director-writer did came close, frame-by-frame, line-by-line, to the magic of “Citizen Kane.” As far as long shadows cast, jumping out of the gate with the epically angst-ridden “Ten” was Pearl Jam’s “Kane.” Its release, in 1991, meant that every slow boiling album that Eddie Vedder and company made since their bugged-out and brooding first full-length has had to live up to that bible of