Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried dominate this black-and-white study of the man who wrote "Citizen Kane," which is made for true cinephiles. It turns out he’d kept his father’s Jack’s script for “Mank” ...

David Fincher's movie is filled with complex reference points — some real, others imagined. Confused about what to believe? Come here for answers. “Mank” is a lot to take in. Diehard fans of classic ...

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To a successful film director, Orson Welles looms like Shakespeare to a playwright, Mozart to a composer, Frank Lloyd Wright to an architect. Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane (perhaps you've heard of ...

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Discover What’s Streaming On: For the cinephiles who fell in love with Citizen Kane in Cinema Studies 101, David Fincher gives us plenty to chew on—a feast, really—in Mank, his Herman Mankiewicz ...

Class is now in session for Film History 101. And this will be on the final. Hopefully, that didn’t inspire too many nervous flashbacks, though I always looked forward to the few cinema courses I ...

Running time: 131 minutes. Rated R (language). In select theaters Friday. On Netflix Dec. 4. “How ‘Citizen Kane’ got written” is an iffy elevator pitch for a film. Such a niche idea might seem better ...

The theme of monkeys runs through “Mank,” most pointedly when William Randolph Hearst (he of newspaper fame) explains the story of the monkey and the organ grinder to Herman Mankiewicz, screenwriter ...