![]() ![]() Recently I ‘ve been reading Brian Kellow’s biography of Pauline Kael, and I’m very pleased that he’s up front about the serious flaws of “Raising KANE,” factual and otherwise - but also disappointed that Kellow is unaware that “The Kane Mutiny” - signed by Peter Bogdanovich, and the best riposte to Kael’s essay ever published by anyone - was mainly written by Welles himself. My joint audio commentary with Jim Naremore on Criterion’s new KANE box set addresses some of Kael’s more dubious factual and critical assumptions. ![]() ![]() I’m not sure if this would qualify as a valid excuse, but this was the first lengthy essay about film that I ever published. Mankiewicz, seems well-supported and convincing” - a howler if there ever was one. I’m still hugely embarrassed by the assertion early in this piece that “ basic contention, that the script of KANE is almost solely the work of Herman J. From the Spring 1972 issue of Film Comment this is also reprinted, with a lot of contextual material, in my 2007 collection Discovering Orson Welles (where I’ve also retained my original title - not used by Film Comment, who ran it as an untitled review). ![]()
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