Mank

Slate's Spoiler Specials

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Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate’s Dana Stevens is joined by Slate’s Brow Beat’s nights and weekends editor Matthew Dessem to spoil Mank, the new film about the making of another film, Citizen Kane. Will Herman Mankiewicz, a troubled alcoholic (played by Gary Oldman), finish his script in time for his deadline? Will anyone like the film? And how does a California Governor's race fit into it all? You can read Dana Stevens here. You can read Matthew Dessem’s review here. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore. Email us at [email protected]. Podcast production by Morgan Flannery. Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Hosts Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic. Matthew Dessem is Slate’s Brow Beat’s night and weekends editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.1	Hello and welcome to another Slate spoiler special podcast. This week we are going to be talking about Mank, the new David Fincher movie about Herman Mankowitz and the process of writing the script of Citizen Kane.
1:10.3	And joining me to talk about
1:11.5	this movie is Matthew Desim, who is Slate's browbeat editor, browbeat contributor. I think of you as Slate's
1:16.8	sort of wild man on tap. Yeah, crazy, crazy uncle in the attic. Hello everyone. You do nights and
1:24.0	weekends coverage, and I always know that Slate after dark is going to be somewhere interesting because Matthew Desham is there.
1:29.9	You're too kind.
1:30.8	Another reason I wanted to have you on for Mank is because you are a sort of Hollywood historian.
1:36.0	You have a book on Clyde Bruckman, The Silent Comedian and Director.
1:40.0	You, in general, seem to be interested in Hollywood history and things from that period.
1:45.1	And so you have written a factor fiction browbeat post about what's true and what's not in
1:49.7	Mank. And that's a lot of stuff to go through right there. That's not all we'll talk about,
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