Inside the Dramatic True Story Behind Mank and the Battle for the Soul of Citizen Kane E! 1 hr ago
Much like
Clocking in at 131 minutes,
David Fincher s black and white homage to old Hollywood focuses on the 60 days given to the brilliant, often besotted and infamously prickly scribe
Herman J. Mankiewicz to churn out the script for
Orson Welles feature directorial debut. Those scenes of genius at war with itself are interspersed with behind-the-scenes studio politicking, actual politicking (left vs. right is not new) and Mankiewicz s conflicted friendship with
Marion Davies, the longtime companion of publishing titan
William Randolph Hearst, who was the fairly obvious inspiration for the character of Charles Foster Kane.
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Elaine Chung
David Fincher is a polarizing provocateur, a painstaking perfectionist, and a prickly prince of darkness. But now, on the eve of the Academy Awards, he’s also something else: the director of the most-nominated film in this year’s Oscar race,
Mank his love letter to both Tinseltown’s Golden Age and
Citizen Kane screenwriter, Herman J. Mankiewicz. Since cutting his auteur’s chops on flashy music videos in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s for Madonna, George Michael, and Michael Jackson, the 58-year-old filmmaker has turned out 11 movies. Amazingly, there isn’t a dud in the bunch. Well, okay, there’s
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Author Anne Fine has twice won the Carnegie Medal, Britain’s most prestigious children s book award, and has two Whitbread Awards, along with many other regional and foreign prizes. Twice voted Children’s Author of the Year, she was Children’s Laureate from 2001 to 2003, when she was also awarded an OBE for services to children’s literature and made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her work is translated into 45 languages. Her novel Goggle-Eyes was adapted for the BBC and Madame Doubtfire became a hit for Twentieth Century Fox as Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. Anne has two daughters and four grandchildren and has lived in Barnard Castle with her partner, botanist Richard Warren, for 30 years.
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