Citizen Kane

  • The Rundown

Vertigo vs. Citizen Kane vs. ???; Let Dead Actors Die; Cocaine Bear Trailer

Behold the coming of Cocaine Bear; the case against reanimating dead actors; the Sight and Sound list is out today,…

1 year ago
  • The Rundown

Cloning Bruce Lee; Citizen Kane: Not Perfect; Fun 2019 Movies

A look at "Bruceploitation" and the failed attempts to mimic Bruce Lee; Citizen Kane loses its perfect rating on a…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Gary Oldman, 24 Years Sober, May Have Noticed Some Things You Didn’t About Mank

https://shows.acast.com/moviemaker-interviews/episodes/gary-oldman-mank Mank isn't just the story of the writer behind Citizen Kane. It's also the story of an alcoholic. Gary…

3 years ago
  • Podcasts

Gary Oldman Doesn’t Think Citizen Kane Is the Best Movie Ever — Or Even the Best Orson Welles Movie

https://shows.acast.com/moviemaker-interviews/episodes/gary-oldman-mank Gary Oldman stars in Mank as Herman J. Mankiewicz, the legendary Hollywood screenwriter whose crowning achievement was Citizen Kane —…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

The Rundown: Borat 2 Star Gets Covid; Affleck Was Right; How Citizen Kane Was Reviewed in Its Time

In today's Movie News Rundown: A certain Borat 2 star tests positive for COVID-19 after the film showed him engaging in…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Happy Birthday Norman Lloyd: Actor Turns 106

Actor-producer-director Norman Lloyd, who has worked with everyone from Orson Welles to Alfred Hitchcock to Martin Scorsese to, most recently,…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Joe Biden’s Favorite Movie Is About Tight Races

Joe Biden's favorite movie is Chariots of Fire, a story about two men who run a series of close races…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Mank Will Have That Degraded Film Look and Old-Timey Mono Audio From the Trailers

Two teaser trailers for Mank, David Fincher's new film about the Citizen Kane screenwriter, went for a very 1940s feel…

4 years ago
  • First Draft

10 Screenplay Structures To Flesh Out Your Formless Story

Since we're all spending more time indoors lately, its prime time to write that screenplay you've been putting off. So…

4 years ago
  • Directing

Where The Movie Came to Life: How Editor Bob Murawski Brought The Other Side of the Wind Back from the Dead

This Fall, following a tour of the prestigious festival circuit, Orson Welles' long lost Hollywood satire The Other Side of…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

First Draft: Best “Plant and Payoff” Scenes Screenwriters Can Learn From

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. “If, in the first chapter,…

7 years ago
  • Movie News

Hollywood’s Four Classic Narrative Types, Part II: Hero Versus the World

The four narrative types established in my previous article, Celebratory, Cautionary, Tragic, and Cynical have one thing in common: they…

7 years ago
  • First Draft

First Draft: Conceptualize Courtship in Your Screenplay By Understanding the Romantic Subplot

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. It is a common narrative…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Fake It To Make It: Watch How Orson Welles’ F For Fake Rewrote the Rules on Editing Structure (Video)

Yes, Orson Welles made Citizen Kane. Its reputation precedes it and it is often seen as a perfect film. Yet,…

7 years ago
  • Cinema Law

Cinema Law: What You Should Know About Using Other Peoples’ Quotes in Your Film

Q: I’m making a film and I’d like to use a quote from a famous person in the script. Are…

7 years ago
  • First Draft

First Draft: What are Plot Patterns, and Why Should You Identify Them in Movies?

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. What if I told you…

8 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews

Magician: Interview with Chuck Workman on the Life and Legacy of Orson Welles

One of the most influential moviemakers of all time, Orson Welles did it all - a writer, an actor, a…

9 years ago
  • Movie News

Desired Effect: Visual Effects Society’s 50 Most Influential Visual Effects Films

Besides being good for starting arguments—and even the occasional dust-up—“best of” film lists are invaluable excuses for revisiting, rethinking and…

16 years ago