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Articles, books, and films have interrogated the creation of director/co-writer Orson Welles’ iconic 1941 Citizen Kane. Director David Fincher’s Netflix film Mank won’t settle any arguments given its clichéd treatment of Hollywood luminaries, with name dropping replacing complex development. Here’s the essence of this take on the troubled attribution of Kane’s screenplay.
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Are you curious about how Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane got made? The movie industry loves its own past, so director David Fincher (The Social Network) wants to set the record straight, working from a witty, character-study backstory by his late father, Jack Fincher.
Read moreMany of the films in the recently concluded 52nd New York Film Festival will fill theaters, fuel discussions, and collect awards for months to come. Topping the list is Citizenfour, a late edition to the tightly edited festival’s main slate of 31 features. Other films of particular interest include Birdman, Inherent Vice, and The Wonder.
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Opening Oct. 3, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is Gone Girl, David Fincher’s hotly anticipated adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling page turner. Flynn has also written the screenplay, which sees Ben Affleck as an adoring husband who must fight to prove his innocence when his wife (Rosamund Pike) disappears. A stylish, intriguing thriller where nothing is as it seems…Read on…
Read moreStill riding the success of last year’s “The Social Network,” David Fincher was probably the only director who could claim
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