87 - Citizen Kane
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The lads head on down to Xanadu and throw themselves into the fire of the largest fireplace imaginable as they cover what is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made: Citizen Kane. Topics include the magnetism of Orson Welles, the revolutionary cinematography, and the enduring historical archetype of Charles Foster Kane.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Citizen Kane: Available on Apple TV
- AT&T Operators Recall War of the Worlds Broadcast
- Orson Welles Shakespeare Collection
- The Battle Over Citizen Kane
- The Citizen Kane of Fan-Fiction
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Featuring David Armstrong as “Orson Welles”.
Comments
Loved this episode, made me want to watch the movie again. Ravensburger is a German company, btw. Also - singing into the mask isn't useless. It's just difficult to put into words what a student supposed to do with a part of their body they have never used consciously. But that's on the coach, not the student imo. They should know how to explain this in a way every student understands.
Wilko
2023-06-10 10:10:09 +0000 UTCI listened to the beginning of this episode, then looked it up and realized that this episode is technically longer than the movie itself so I decided to actually watch the movie first. It was really excellent and then I loved hearing your thoughts. I am impressed with the confidence of Orson Welles, that he managed to be that successful from such a young age.
Elizabeth Power
2023-05-21 12:50:46 +0000 UTCUncut pedantry: San Simeon is owned by the state of California, not the Hearst estate. When WRH died in the 50s, his family -who never lived there- saw the property as an embarrassment and a huge white elephant, a monument to his affair with Marion Davies. So they gave it to the state, without any concern about what the state would do with it. (Hearst had actually vacated the property at the demand of the War Department in 1941, as there were concerns that the property would be an aid to navigation during a Japanese invasion, so by the point of his death, it had been unoccupied for more than a decade). The house became a tourist attraction more or less in spite of itself (ultimately, it's a 1920-30s house, two miles up a hill, in the middle of nowhere). It's now the one state-run attraction in CA which makes money, sending profits to the state treasury every year. The family still own Wyntoon, which was Hearst's mother's storybook-themed retreat in the Northern Cali forests. It's now described as a "corporate retreat" for the publishing company, but the family still uses it.
Robert Young
2023-05-18 12:48:40 +0000 UTCFmt crossover time baby
Zipzapzop
2023-05-18 06:39:07 +0000 UTC
