55 - Comradio Film Club #1: Mank

Comradio

English - May 11, 2021 14:07 - 52 minutes - 60.2 MB
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This week we invite you to the grand opening of the Comradio Film Club. We're talking about David Fincher's Mank, and on our way we cover why left film critics love Citizen Kane, the politics of the controversy over its screenplay, the truth about some leading figures of Golden Age Hollywood, the music of Wagner, the relationship between Hollywood and the Nazis, the birth of modern dirty tricks political campaigning, the Beach Boys, and Vincent D'Onofrio.

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