Episode 192: Mank

This week, Morgan and Gavia dissect David Fincher's new film Mank, a biopic of Herman Mankiewicz, the screenwriter of Citizen Kane. They critique the film's approach to pastiching 1940s movies, question the decision to cast Gary Oldman in the lead role, dive into the film's discrepancies with the life of the real Mankiewicz, and much more.

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Links

“David Fincher’s Impossible Eye,” Jonah Weiner, The New York Times Magazine

“Nerding Out with David Fincher,” Mark Harris, Vulture

“Herman Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, and the Battle Over ‘Citizen Kane’,” Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“The Rise (and Fall) of Citizen Kane as the Greatest Movie Ever Made,” Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

“Deflating myths about Orson Welles,” Gabriel M. Paletz, Wellesnet.com

“‘Mank’ and Politics: What Really Happened in 1934 California,” Greg Mitchell, The New York Times

““Here Lies Herm — I Mean, Joe”: On Sydney Ladensohn Stern’s ‘The Brothers Mankiewicz’,” Alex Harvey, The Los Angeles Review of Books — This is a review of a different biography than the one discussed in this episode but may be of interest!

“The Mankiewicz Brothers’ Biographer Weighs in on David Fincher’s Mank,” Sydney Ladensohn Stern, Lithub

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