How ‘Mank’ Got in the Middle of a 50-Year-Old Feud Between Pauline Kael and Peter Bodganovich
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thewrap.comAlso Read: 'Mank' Film Review: David Fincher Sumptuously Spins the 'Citizen Kane' Origin Story“‘Mank’ is just one in a string of films portraying Welles as a megalomaniacal bogeyman,” film historian Joseph McBride wrote in a recent story on the Wellesnet website.
He charges the film with “myriad lies and distortions … designed to tear down a great filmmaker” and adds, “I was sickened, although not particularly surprised, to see Welles once again portrayed as a bullying maniac and credit thief, a figure out of Kael’s malicious fantasies.”What McBride calls “fantasies” were first published in two parts in early 1971 in the New Yorker, which ran the 50,000-word introduction Kael had written to the published screenplay of “Citizen Kane.” The.
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