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Dec 3, 2020 · ‘Mank’ Review: A Rosebud by Any Other Name Gary Oldman plays a Hollywood hack with an ax to grind in David Fincher’s reinterpretation of the legend of “Citizen Kane.” Share full article
- David Fincher
Dec 7, 2020 · Dec. 7, 2020. David Fincher’s new Netflix drama “Mank” explores how Herman J. Mankiewicz came to co-write the celebrated screenplay for “Citizen Kane.” Why did he stick with it despite enormous...
Nov 29, 2020 · In Netflix’s new drama “Mank,” directed by David Fincher and due Friday on Netflix, Seyfried plays Marion Davies, the 1920s and ’30s screen star better known today as the mistress of the ...
Dec 4, 2020 · Richard Brody reviews David Fincher’s film “Mank,” which tells the story of the making of “Citizen Kane,” and of the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, played in the bio-pic by Gary Oldman.
- Herman Mankiewicz
- Orson Welles
- Marion Davies
- William Randolph Hearst
- Louis B. Mayer
- Irving Thalberg
From his struggles with alcohol to his friendship with Marion Davies, the broad strokes of Mankiewicz’s life as depicted in Mank are largely based in truth. Mankiewicz began his writing career as a journalist and sometimes playwright who served as the original theater critic for the New Yorker and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. After arrivi...
Welles only appears in a handful of scenes throughout Mank, but his shadow hangs over Mankiewicz’s struggle to finish the script that he’s been hired to write— tentatively titled American—in a matter of months. Just as MANK‘sopening title card states, “In 1940, at the tender age of 24, Orson Welles was lured to Hollywood by a struggling RKO Picture...
We first meet Davies in Mank when she’s screaming from atop a pyre constructed as part of a movie set on William Randolph Hearst’s—or as she calls him, Pops’—infamous San Simeon estate. “This is all Pops’ idea,” she tells Mank. “He wants me ready to take on the talkies.” In real life, the Brooklyn-born Davies was the longtime live-in mistress of He...
The inspiration for the titular Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane, Hearst was a powerful media magnate best known for developing America’s largest chain of newspapers in the late 19th century—including a number of publications that dealt in sensational yellow journalism. Despite running for office as a Democrat several times early in his career—w...
As the head of MGM, Louis B. Mayer was an ultra-powerful figure in Hollywood at a time when the studio system reigned supreme. After co-founding MGM in 1924, Mayer propelled the studio to great success, earning it the nickname of the “Tiffany studio,” where there were “more stars than there are in the heavens.” Despite personally earning the highes...
Nicknamed the “boy wonder of Hollywood,” Irving Thalberg served as MGM’s head of production from 1925 until his death at the age of 37 in 1936. Over the course of those years, he oversaw nearly every creative aspect of the estimated 400 filmsthat he helped produce, becoming known for his unique vision and inherent flair for storytelling and transfo...
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Nov 6, 2020 · Written by Jack Fincher, who is David Fincher’s (late) father, “Mank” is a lusciously evocative, verbally sharp-angled movie that’s never less than engrossing.
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With proper grounding and preparation (Wikipedia won’t suffice — the first two volumes of Simon Callow ’s Orson Welles biographies may just about cut it), this near-spiritual work from David...
