show interview and started tearing up when you told the story. before we let you go, though, mika was sheltered curl turlly. her father didn t let her watch tvs and movies, i am taking her through the greatest movies of all time. that s citizen cane, godfather 2, and dumb and dumber. i must admit she did not get dumb and dumber. jeff. it was heartbreaking. awful! thank you. thank you. it will be on my tombstone unfortunately, or fortunately. the tombstone will read i am shaving. that s what will be yeah. still funny. still funny. it s still funny. it s not. still amazing. and it is again one of the three greatest movies of all time. the new show time series,
was a part of trump that he s repressed, which was interesting. the part that sort of gatsby, the sort of loner, the individual against the establishment, a bit like citizen cane. there s a very american piece there, but that s been over by the indecency of the guy. there was a lot of important stuff going on there and that s why people i think voted for him. and once he got into power he didn t elevate himself to the office. he didn t become a better person. he took shots at peoples physical disabilities, at their looks, their voices, their gender. this is something our parents taught us not to do. you cannot have a president the ends do not justify the means. this is what we talk about at night. every night he comes home at 8:00, 8:30, we sit down at dinner and the conversation continues. i will i find an old movie i like and you can t figure out. thank you, kathleen, the queen.
secure. we would have been much better off with iran and iraq going at each other. fast forward to trump. did you ever imagine a presidency like this? no, and i don t want to use this anniversary to take another shot at him except to say there was a part of shot that he s repressed, which was interesting. the part that sort of gatsby, the sort of lower, the individual against the establishment. a bit like citizen cane. there s a very american piece there, but that s been smaugtered over by the indecency of the guy. there was a lot of important stuff going on there and that s why people i think voted for him. and once he got into power he didn t elevate himself to the office. he took shots at peoples physical disabilities, at their looks, their voice, their gender. this is something our parents
not only do you bring your expertise as host of turner classic movies but your grandfather as we heard co-wrote the screen play yofor citizen cane with orson welles. tell us how this film came to be and why there was so much controversy surrounding it at the time. first of all, ana, you re talk bing to a directed it, the most impressively directed film ever. should have won a best director oscar. should have won best picture and actor. the controversy at the time came from the would was seen as the subject of the film, william randol randolph hurst. the focus came to be on hurst. hurst, again, there is no one like william randolph hurst. he controlled the media. he had hundreds of newspapers. he tried to stop the movie. those interested in doing business with him joined him in
heart, historians call the greatest movie ever made, citizen cane. the sweeping tale of newspaper magnate charles foster cane. with t citizen cane begins one word rosebud. the whole rest of the movie is about a reporter searching for the meaning of rosebud. he speaks to people from cane s past and reads the memoirs of his lawyer and through the recollections of those people, we learn about charles foster cane s life. maybe the thing that wells did best was recognize what he didn t know. early on at 25. so he hires my grandfather to write the screenplay. not to mention bernard herman s great music and the cinematography was a breakthrough and changed the way we make movies. merry christmas. merry christmas. and a happy new year. ben is with us now.