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WolfmanOz at the Movies #97
That zither music. “I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. Constantinople suited me better. I really got to know it in the classic period of the black market.” And with that brilliant opening voice over narration (actually spoken by director Carol Reed) we are…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #74
I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. It is with some trepidation that I write about a film that is often considered one of the greatest film ever made – Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, released in 1941. This quasi-biographical drama examines the life and legacy of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, brilliantly played by…