#255: The Manking of Kane, Pt. 2 — Mank
The Next Picture Show
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4.6 • 858 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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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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