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by Raul Gomez | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Cinema | December 17th, 2020 [email protected] David Fincher lays down plenty of track on the great big electric train set of “Mank,” the filmmaker’s return to the director’s chair after “Gone Girl” in 2014. Depending on one’s interest in the evergreen legend of “Citizen Kane” and the politics of classic Hollywood, mileage may vary, but Fincher’s detailed visual style and an invested performance from Gary Oldman not to mention the talents of several entertaining supporting players combine to form yet another purely speculative chapter in the cottage industry of films toying with the mythology of one of the most venerated motion pictures ever made. ....
WHAT IT S ABOUT: A new version of 1930s Hollywood is told through the eyes of Herman J. Mankiewicz, the screenwriter, as he rushes to finish the script of the famous film Citizen Kane. WHAT WE THOUGHT: There is something about David Fincher s films that transports you out of your current situation into the world he has created. In The Social Network we were in the negotiation room with Mark Zuckerberg and in Gone Girl we were in on Amy Dunne s schemes. In Mank, we experience the intricacies on 1930s Hollywood. The film follows Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman), the fabled journalist turned screenwriter, as he wrote what many consider to be the greatest film of all time ....