Slate Money: Movies: Citizen Kane
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Welcome to the Citizen Kane episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies. I'm Felix |
| 0:19.2 | Amon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundrise. Hello. It's time to really drag |
| 0:26.6 | out the big guns here. This is the 40-millimeter howitzer of movies. In order to talk about the |
| 0:33.6 | movie that everyone seems to think was the greatest movie ever made in the history of cinema, |
| 0:39.0 | we have the only person we could possibly invite on this show to talk about it. Welcome Ben Smith. |
| 0:45.4 | Thank you so much for having me out. Ben, who are you and what is your relationship to the press |
| 0:51.6 | and press magnets? Oh, I'm the film critic for The New York Times. Ben is the most |
| 0:59.2 | astute observer of contemporary media and used to run a website you might have heard of called BuzzFeed. |
| 1:05.1 | I know nothing about movies. I'm the media columnist for the time. Anyone reading that column |
| 1:10.2 | and reading when I read about Disney and Netflix will see how a little I know about movies. |
| 1:13.8 | And yes, used to run BuzzFeed. But you actually, you have a whole childhood of house movies in your |
| 1:20.6 | background as we will talk about in this episode. You will mention inflicting French art house |
| 1:26.3 | movies on your 14-year-old daughter. We will talk about where Kane stands as like a movie, |
| 1:32.0 | as an art house movie, but of course, mostly we're going to talk about Kane as a character, |
| 1:36.6 | this whole idea of media moguls, whether it stands up, what's changed in the media industry |
| 1:41.7 | between 1941 and now. It's a meaty and delicious episode coming up on sleek money goes to the movies. |
| 1:50.2 | All right, I'm Jack Greenlich. I think you can listen to music from relaxing, |
| 1:55.2 | to celebrating, to getting yourself prepared. But I like all sorts, honestly, I like |
| 2:00.2 | hip-hop R&B and then house music as well. So yeah, there's no guilt in places around here. |
| 2:05.2 | Jack wears the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra headphones, enjoying his favourite music, |
| 2:10.4 | with more immersive sounds than ever before. Wow, the music's just everything, isn't it? |
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