- Above: Ed Wood meets Orson Welles. I looked this up this week because it got a mention on the Mark Kermode film podcast (the Citizen Kane episode, obviously). I love the film Ed Wood, even the Johnny Depp of 2020 cannot ruin this film for me. Also, that last line is really what I needed to hear this week:
“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?”
Orson Welles (but not really)
- I haven’t watched Mank yet, but I am appreciating all the articles that are springing up about Kane and Welles, including this one from Vulture on The Rise (and Inevitable Fall) of Citizen Kane As the Greatest Movie Ever Made .
- This week I also got round to finally reading that article about hacking Tony Abbot’s passport number. It’s as fantastic as everyone said it was.
- That article appeared in Tom Whitwell’s 52 things learned in 2020, which has been linked everywhere in the past couple of weeks, and for good reason.
- Some new music this week: The World of a Tiny Insect by George Fields: