>>According to the Guardian, when Hearst heard about the movie, he was furious.
shades of the Kavanaugh witchhunt.
when you are attacked and smeared, you are supposed to lie back and take it.
Are they trying to draw parallels between Citizen Kane and Ruin Johnson’s “last jedi”?
According to IMDB ratings, one of the Batman films is the third best film ever made.
“Rosebud” was supposedly the nickname Hearst gave to his side piece/lover’s clitoris.
Rosebud ! That flick is a masterpiece . When War of the Worlds went on I was listening to I think it was The Lone Ranger my BFF school chum Eddie Nickols was running out on Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood Morgan street along with others looking for those Martian space saucers.
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Because it's not the Greatest Film Ever Made?
I've watched it two times straight through and watched segments of it perhaps three other times.
It's a visually interesting film with good actors, but the story is a standard Hollywood cliché - a tormented rapacious rich man tries to buy respect and happiness, but fails.
Bottom Line for me - you can't make a great film if the audience doesn't care what happens to the main characters.
The Clintons gave the brilliant “Path to 9/11” the William Hearst treatment, and Disney first censored and then buried it.
Interesting post; thread. Thanks to all.
One of Jack Hammer’s all-time faves.
Once you get your hands on a clean, crisp restored copy you realize that it’s some of the most skillful cinematography ever done.
Orson Welles was 26. And he never came anywhere close to matching that level of success again.
When Orson Welles was on his deathbed he dropped a snow globe and was heard to say “RKOooooo....”