CITIZEN KANE Screenings in the UK
Orson Welles‘ 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane, winner of the best original screenplay Academy Award, will hit UK theaters on Nov. 30. In addition to London’s bfi Southbank, Citizen Kane will also be screened in Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.
Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane stars Welles as a newspaper magnate based on William Randolph Hearst. Also in the cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore (a distorted version of Marion Davies), Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, and Everett Sloane.
Cinematography by the masterful Gregg Toland, music by Bernard Herrmann.
Citizen Kane was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including best picture, director, and actor (Welles).
More information here.
by Joan Lister | October 23, 2009
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Tags: bfi Southbank, Citizen Kane, Classic Movies, Herman J. Mankiewicz, London Screenings, Orson Welles
The Joy of Sex Education
Kinky voyeurism of yesteryear: A couple learn about it by watching a wild bird-bunny-bee orgy.
"The Joy of Sex Education" at the bfi Southbank:
"Running the gamut from syphilitic soldiers in WW1 to puberty pep-talks for girls to the government’s infamous AIDS awareness campaigns, this jaunt through 90 years of sex education films aims to enlighten, entertain and, above all, encourage you to subjugate your passions for the moral health of the nation.
"Many of the early films highlight Britain’s horror at the very thought of sex and sexuality. Euphamisms [sic] abound and, if you can get away with making your point with the aid of a few birds or rabbits, why not?"
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