Tag: Citizen Kane
Don’t Be Afraid of Beau Is Afraid—Unless the Overbearing Jewish Mother Trope Is Your Worst Nightmare
As one of those movies that has so much psychological buildup surrounding it before one even goes into the theater (or rather, if one goes [Read More…]
“There’s No Remedy For Memory”…Other Than to Drown In It: Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter
Joanna Hogg’s entire film career has been about going against the grain. Defying the expectation that a movie needs to be “big” in order to [Read More…]
Mank Arrives As A Sort of Elegy For What Screenwriting–Ergo Film–Used to Be
Although David Fincher couldn’t have known while in the long preproduction phase of Mank that a sinister disease called COVID-19 was brewing to help take [Read More…]
Why Citizen Kane Is An Insult to William Randolph Hearst
Citizen Kane, consistently regarded as one of the best pieces of American cinema ever made, may be intended as an homage to William Randolph Hearst–even [Read More…]
