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J. Hoberman’s most recent book is Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan. (January 2021)
Revenge of the Has-Been
Mank is no documentary but a semifactual yarn that burnishes the legend of the showboat, nasty wit, and habitual roisterer who wrote Citizen Kane.
Mank
a film written by Jack Fincher and directed by David Fincher
The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics
by Sydney Ladensohn Stern
January 14, 2021 issue
Self-Made Men
Martin Eden
a film written and directed by Pietro Marcello, and cowritten by Maurizio Braucci
October 22, 2020 issue
The Waiting Rooms of History
Transit
a film written and directed by Christian Petzold, adapted from the novel by Anna Seghers
Christian Petzold: The State We Are In
a film series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, November 30–December 13, 2018
March 7, 2019 issue
The House of Anderson
Phantom Thread
a film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
March 22, 2018 issue
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