J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Mank’
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Mank. The man who wrote “Citizen Kane.”
Tell me you’ve never seen “Citizen Kane.” Of course you have. Turner Classics runs it almost monthly.
MOVIE INFO
Biography, comedy, drama
1930’s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Length: 131 minutes
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins |
You’ve seen the young Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane rip up a bedroom in one long take, clutter up Hearst Castle with art from all Europe, run for public office and be smashed to the ground.