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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Indiewire's guide to Mank 

 

Raising Kane - I by Pauline Kael 

 

Harlan Lebo Delves Into Differences Between ‘Citizen Kane’ Script, Finished Film 

 

Fact-checking 'Mank'  

 

The truth about the Upton Sinclair gubernatorial campaign 

 

The Story of Muckraker Upton Sinclair’s Dramatic Campaign for Governor of California 

 

Citations Needed | Episode 134: The 80-Year PR Campaign that Killed Universal Healthcare 

 

Hollywood’s Confrontations with Nazism 

 

Hollywood, Nazism, and the Jews, 1933-41 by FELICIA HERMAN 

 

A page from the LA Times in 1941: 'Nazi Consul Here Disclaims Knowledge About Saboteurs' 

 

Music Director of The Royal Opera Antonio Pappano discusses the 'Tristan' chord.  

 

The best of the worst Beach Boys film  

 

Orson Welles - The Murder Mystery years