It's a pity Orson Welles is no longer with us. He would be the perfect one to play Rupert Murdoch in the movie about the current newspaper scandal in Britain. Welles, of course, played the newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane ("Citizen Kane") who died friendless, muttering the enigmatic word "Rosebud." In "Citizen Murdoch," Welles might mutter "Hacking." But other than that, this movie would be like the last. It's about newspapers. Murdoch is a rogue, a buccaneer - a "pirate," as Ken Auletta called him in a New Yorker profile - who sports the Jolly Roger of sheer opportunism. An Aussie, he adopted America for its values, its freedoms, and because a foreigner could not own broadcast properties. Born rich and privileged - his father was a newspaper publisher - he went on to become immens...
Orson Welles's Charles Foster Kane remains mysterious despite Rosebud, but there's no sled in There Will Be Blood, only the fragmented reminiscences of a man too injured and too proud to reminisce deeply; the memories of a brother who may not be a brother; the resentments of a son who was never a son. Anderson's method invites your eyes to explore every inch of the screen, to feel the counterpoint between foreground and background, to sense the importance of the camera holding on a certain speaker's face for a long time or the equal importance of a speaker being off screen while the listener is on.
Charles Foster Kane once said to a shy young journalist, "When I was a reporter, we asked them quicker than that." Which was a bit of a fib, because Kane never was a reporter, having started out at the top. Warren E. Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway, also started out at the top of the newspaper business, having bought The Buffalo News some years ago and now serving as its chairman. He has been heard to say he might have liked to have been a reporter, given that his job of figuring out what stocks and companies to buy requires similar skills.
embraces [PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON]'s recurring themes: the search for love, the hand of fate, the death of innocence, the consequence of our selves. Eli, too, is Tom Cruise's character in Magnolia, and [Paul Dano] even vaguely resembles Cruise. The movie also rather dearly reflects our current culture, wherein the rich are getting richer and the holy are getting holier. I'm sure Anderson intended this, although the analogy interests me much less than what's literally on screen. I see the worst in people," [Daniel Day-Lewis] tells a potential business partner. "I don't even have to look past them to see all I need." His disease is one of more than just avarice: His sort of virulent misanthropy can lead only to decay. He's a man who simply can't permit himself to be beat...
... ends up alone in a big empty house, like Charles Foster Kane. The only piece of him missing is his ...
So who was the Shakespearean figure behind Peanuts'? American Masters' "Good Ol' [Charles Schulz]" (Monday, 8 p.m., WHA) spends an hour and a half trying to answer that question, using Citizen Kane as a framing device. It's an appropriate allusion, because Schulz is as mysterious as Charles Foster Kane. He was a seemingly normal kid from St. Paul who grew up to be a seemingly normal man. In archival interviews, he comes off as the boring guy next door, with no trace of the strip's humor, existential dread or sly intelligence. Yes, we learn about his mother's early death and his family's tendency to keep things bottled up. And we learn that, in real life, The Little Red-Haired Girl (interviewed as An Old Gray-Haired Lady) jilted him for another man. [Jules Feiffer] can't explain where it...
... about some truly great movies, like Citizen Kane (12) or It's a Wonderful Life (13) is the difficul..." and build magnificent monuments like Charles Foster Kane's estate "Xanadu" in Citizen Kane, ano...
Dear Helaine and Joe: I have no idea how long my father owned this sled, but is there anything you can tell me about my small treasure? - T.Z., Blue Grass, Iowa. Dear T.Z.: This sled brings to mind the opening of one of the world's greatest films - Citizen Kane. This 1941 movie opens with a shot of Charles Foster Kane's palatial home, Xanadu.
By Craig Shapiro The Virginian-Pilot
... recounts in his commentary for "Citizen Kane." "They didn't know what they couldn't do.". Welle...Charles Foster Kane) and editor Robert Wise, storyboards a...
... ceiling the warehouse resembles Xanadu if Charles Foster Kane collected the supplies for a dinner pa...
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