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Daily Grab 119: Are They Standing for Me?

Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), in Citizen Kane:

"Are they standing for me?"

"Ask them to sit down, will you please?"

This sentiment, expressed by the better man C.F. Kane was in his youth, sums up everything I've heard about the man-of-the-people nobility of Roger Ebert, in work and life otherwise.


Sight & Sound 2012: Ozu & Murnau (and Vigo), Vertov & Wong

The Sight & Sound "greatest films" poll is conducted once every ten years, and has been going strong for eight decades, with Citizen Kane sitting atop the list for 50 years. That changed today, but yet other changes in the list were radically more exciting and interesting to me.


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