for our penultimate episode of 2020, be prepared to hear the phrases "greatest film of all time" and "pauline kael" too many times as we reflect on sam's first viewing of CITIZEN KANE at the PCC and netflix's MANK renders emmett considerably upset. we also approached fragments of o. welles' filmography from TOO MUCH JOHNSON to F FOR FAKE and discussed a couple of critical debates about KANE's authorship. bibliography below:

'Too Much Johnson', National Film Preservation Foundation, https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/lost-and-found-mercury-theater-films

Bazin, Andre, "Orson Welles: a Critical View" (trans. Jonathan Rosenbaum, New York, 1978).

Carringer, R.L., ‘The Scripts of “Citizen Kane”’, in Critical Inquiry Vol 5. No. 2 (1978), 369-400.

Cousins, Mark 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' (2011)

Kael, Pauline, ‘Raising Kane’ in The Citizen Kane Book (New York, 1971).

Mulvey, Laura, "BFI Classics: Citizen Kane" (London, 1992).

Rosenbaum, Jonathan, ‘I Missed It at the Movies: Objections to ‘Raising Kane’’ in Film Comment, Spring 1972, reprinted in "Discovering Orson Welles" (Berkeley, 2007).

'Sartre and Borges on Welles', The Paris Reviewhttps://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/12/sartre-and-borges-on-welles/

soundtrack features phil graves’ renditions of: ‘the union forever’ by the white stripes‘citizen kane suite’ by bernard hermann& ‘three keys for the large door’ by phil graves