Citizen Kane, then...

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Kathryn Trosper Popper, Welles' personal assistant and last living cast member of CK (two lines), died Sunday at 100.

Several versions of the script vary, but in the version of the film that was released, Mrs. Popper is uncredited, but she can be seen taking a flash photograph directly into the movie camera, then from afar, climbing off a ladder. According to Mr. Lebo, she says, “Yeah, all in crates,” referring to curios that Kane shipped to Xanadu and never unpacked.

“You put all this together, the palaces and the paintings and the toys and everything, what would it spell?” a newspaperman asks.

“Charles Foster Kane,” Jerry Thompson, another reporter, replies.

“Or Rosebud?” the first reporter says. “How about it, Jerry?”

“What’s Rosebud?” Ms. Popper’s character asks.

“That’s what he said when he died.”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kathryn-trosper-popper-dead-last-873587

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/movies/kathryn-popper-who-had-tiny-role-in-citizen-kane-dies-at-100.html?_r=0

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link

Her first visit to New York was with Welles to promote “Citizen Kane.” She moved to the city a year later, befriended many celebrities, wrote a hibachi cookbook and never left.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

I got the new Callow bio on hold.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 May 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link

that doc has a lot of bullshit about kane being based on welles

remove butt (abanana), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 07:26 (seven years ago) link

four years pass...

Mank?

This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link

five months pass...

This is a thread

My long-awaited (by two people) CITIZEN KANE story:

After NYU, I was working in a film restoration lab in NYC. It had two employees. Me. And a crazy, secretive Yugoslavian chemist that had devised a treatment that could remove most scratches from film.

THREAD pic.twitter.com/WmNpJNygOi

— Nicolas Falacci (@NickFalacci) February 26, 2021

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 February 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link

my students are writing about it this weekend!

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 February 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link

"OR ELSE!" "Yes Mr. Soto. *whimper*"

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 February 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link

Mr. Soto’s last warning.

The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 February 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link

I've seen every episode. Power to the people!

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 27 February 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link

five months pass...

Okay so

https://www.criterion.com/films/32250-citizen-kane

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and three Blu-rays with the film and special features
Three audio commentaries: from 2021 featuring Orson Welles scholars James Naremore and Jonathan Rosenbaum; from 2002 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; and from 2002 featuring film critic Roger Ebert
The Complete “Citizen Kane,” (1991), a rarely seen feature-length BBC documentary
New interviews with critic Farran Smith Nehme and film scholar Racquel J. Gates
New video essay by Orson Welles scholar Robert Carringer
New program on the film’s special effects by film scholars and effects experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt
Interviews from 1990 with editor Robert Wise; actor Ruth Warrick; optical-effects designer Linwood Dunn; Bogdanovich; filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Henry Jaglom, Martin Ritt, and Frank Marshall; and cinematographers Allen Daviau, Gary Graver, and Vilmos Zsigmond
New documentary featuring archival interviews with Welles
Interviews with actor Joseph Cotten from 1966 and 1975
The Hearts of Age, a brief silent film made by Welles as a student in 1934
Television programs from 1979 and 1988 featuring appearances by Welles and Mercury Theatre producer John Houseman
Program featuring a 1996 interview with actor William Alland on his collaborations with Welles
Selection of The Mercury Theatre on the Air radio plays featuring many of the actors from Citizen Kane
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: Deluxe packaging, including a book with an essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri

Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 August 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link

And yet still we wait for the colourized version!

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 16 August 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link

WHEN WILL TED TURNER'S DREAM BE REAL

Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 August 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link

From beyond the grave: "What is it you WANT? In the depths of your ignorance?"

Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 August 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link

will we see a colorized version at last

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 August 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link

I think the dream is now a 3D version.

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 16 August 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link


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