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The Next Picture Show

#255: The Manking of Kane, Pt. 2 — Mank

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Though David Fincher’s new MANK certainly makes the case for giving Herman Mankiwiecz more of the credit for CITIZEN KANE than he’s often received, it’s more interested in peeling back the layers of a complex character and exploring the many personal and cultural themes that found their way into KANE. That makes it all but impossible not to discuss the film in relation to the Orson Welles classic, which is exactly what we do this week, comparing how the two films function as biography, how they each tackle politics and cronyism, and how they use non-chronological storytelling to different effect (and success). Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about CITIZEN KANE, MANK, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730.  Your Next Picture Show: Tasha: Aaron Sorkin’s THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7  Keith: Sofia Coppola’s ON THE ROCKS and Steve McQueen’s SMALL AXE Genevieve: Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s SAVE YOURSELVES! Outro Music: “Teamwork” by Bing Crosby & Bob Hope Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

No home. No address. No address. No bank account. No bank account. No job. No job. No home. No address. No

0:14.1

bank account. No bank account. No job. No job. No home. It's time to break the vicious circle.

0:22.0

We're working with charities like Shelter to provide a bank account for people who are homeless.

0:27.1

Such HSBCUK, no fixed address.

0:31.4

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:35.1

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:41.9

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:49.7

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:56.5

I'm Keith Phipps here again with...

0:58.1

Tasha Robinson and Genevieve Kosky.

1:00.4

Scott Tobias won't be joining us because he's laid up with a broken leg and a case of whiskey.

1:04.8

But we can't wait to see what he produces in his time away.

1:08.2

On last week's show, we talked about Citizen Kane. On this week's episode, we'll discuss a film about Citizen Kane.

1:13.8

Sort of.

1:14.7

David Fincher's latest, the director's first film for Netflix, is a biopic of a screenwriter Herman

1:19.5

Megowitz, adapted from a screenplay by Jack Fincher, the director's father, who died in 2003.

1:24.8

In interviews, Fincher has talked about how his father's first draft

1:27.5

essentially took the same position that Pauline Kale took in her essay, Raising Kane,

1:32.2

that Makavitz deserved credit as the true author of Citizen Kane. Though the Finnish film

1:36.7

certainly makes the case for giving Makovits more of the credit than he's often received over

1:40.8

the years, it's more interested in peeling back the layers of a complex character and exploring the many personal and cultural themes that found their way into Kane.

1:48.5

Jerry Oldman starts as Megavitz, depicted in the films of brilliant lush working on the script

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