Tuppence Middleton plays Sara Mankiewicz, Herman’s wife, in Mank.
Tuppence Middleton talks Mank and limericks with Gary Oldman I Netflix Interview
Brief Take (YouTube)
December 4, 2020
Back To One: Tuppence Middleton
Back To One (Filmmaker Magazine) (Apple Podcasts)
December 8, 2020
Shirley Halperin, Executive Editor of Music at Variety
December 3, 2020
Variety
Scoring Films Allows Writers to Explore a Range of Styles
Members of Nine Inch Nails produce more than just rock content. During the keynote conversation with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, moderator Shirley Halperin dug into their scoring success on a range of film projects, from “The Social Network” to “Watchmen,” “Soul” and “Mank.”
Writing music for the screen has given the artists their fair share of challenges, the most recent being composing big band and orchestral scores. But without the opportunity to score films, the band members said they’d miss out on exploring the various realms of music.
“We feel really proud to be involved, and proud of the journey that we were put on,” Reznor said. “That’s one of the things that’s great about working on films. In our life in Nine Inch Nails, we kind of don’t know what to expect — we have a pretty good idea of what road we’re going to go down or what the future might hold. With film, it’s like you’re on a finite, intense journey that might lead you down paths that in our other lives we wouldn’t get to go on.”
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Andrew Saladino
November 30, 2020
The Royal Ocean Film Society
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Sources / Further Reading:
Raising Kane by Pauline Kael
The Citizen Kane Book
The Kane Mutiny by Peter Bogdanovich
Bogdanovich’s Interviews w/Orson Welles
The Scripts of Citizen Kane by Robert L. Carringer
Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris
Music: “Highlight Reel”, “Rollin at 5”, “Faster Does It”, “Night in Venice” by Kevin MacLeod
Ferdinand Kingsley plays film producer Irving Thalberg in Mank.
Sam Cook In An Interview With | Ferdinand Kingsley (Mank)
Sam Cook (YouTube)
October 21, 2020
Ferdinand Kingsley “An Actor Despairs” Interview
Ryan Perez
November 30, 2020
An Actor Despairs (YouTube)
Ferdinand Kingsley on David Fincher’s Mank with Gary Oldman
Stefan Pape
November 30, 2020
HeyUGuys (YouTube)
DAVID FINCHER’S MANK | Ferdinand Kingsley lives the dream in Netflix Original Mank (2020)
Film Forums (YouTube)
December 3, 2020
Mank Star Ferdinand Kingsley Talks Netflix Film, Love Of Aston Villa & Passion Of Black & White Film
Switchbox TV (YouTube)
December 4, 2020
MANK Interview: Ferdinand Kingsley On Working With David Fincher
FilmSpeak (YouTube)
December 7, 2020
Ferdinand Kingsley: Up Close and Personal About His Family and Fame
The Katz Walk with Joseph Katz (Evergreen Podcasts)
January 14, 2021
Tom Pelphrey plays screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Herman’s younger brother, in Mank.
Tom Pelphrey: intervista ai protagonisti di Mank di David Fincher
Cinefilos_it (YouTube)
November 28, 2020
Tom Pelphrey MANK Interview | Netflix
kinowetter (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
Tom Pelphrey Talks “Mank” (& “Ozark”)
Sarina Bellissimo (YouTube)
December 3, 2020
MANK | Entrevista a Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins y Tom Pelphrey
SensaCine (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
‘Mank’ Interviews with Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey
CinemaBlend (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
Cinema | Mank: il nostro incontro con Amanda Seyfried e Tom Pelphrey
BadTaste.it (YouTube)
December 3, 2020
Mank Actor Tom Pelphrey on His 90-Minute Zoom Audition with David Fincher
Collider Interviews (YouTube)
December 9, 2020
Amanda Seyfried and Lily Collins On Going Old-School in Mank (plus Tom Pelphrey)
John Fardy
November 27, 2020
Screentime (Newstalk Podcast)
‘Mank’ Star Tom Pelphrey on Saying One of Cinema’s Most Famous Words
Brian Davids
December 2, 2020
The Hollywood Reporter
Amanda Seyfried plays actress Marion Davies, life partner of William Randolph Hearst, in Mank.
Amanda Seyfried, Mank, Best party, Dad’s response, fame & motherhood
Margaret Gardiner (YouTube)
October 31, 2020
Breaking Entertainment News: Amanda Seyfried on MANK
Golden Globes (YouTube)
November 13, 2020
Amanda Seyfried Talks MANK, Playing Marion Davies, Filming Multiple Takes with David Fincher
Jake’s Takes (YouTube)
November 19, 2020
Interview: Amanda Seyfried – Mank
CineXpress (YouTube)
November 23, 2020
Amanda Seyfried über “Mank”
CINEMA-Magazin (YouTube)
November 25, 2020
Amanda Seyfried: intervista ai protagonisti di Mank di David Fincher
Cinefilos_it (YouTube)
November 28, 2020
Could Amanda Seyfried bag an Oscar for Netflix movie Mank?
On Demand Entertainment (YouTube)
November 29, 2020
Amanda Seyfried On Netflix’s ‘Mank’: ‘It Just Couldn’t Get Any More Beautiful’
CBS Los Angeles (YouTube)
November 30, 2020
Nelson Aspen chats with Amanda Seyfried & Lily Collins about “Mank”
NelsonAspen (YouTube)
November 30, 2020
Amanda Seyfried Mank Interview
DE PELICULA (YouTube)
December 1, 2020
Amanda Seyfried MANK Interview | Netflix
kinowetter (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
Interview: Amanda Seyfried on working with David Fincher on Mank
Próxima Tanda (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
Amanda Seyfried Interview – “Mank”
Paul’s Trip to the Movies (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
MANK – AMANDA SEYFRIED INTERVIEW (2020)
Bonnie Laufer Krebs (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
Conversations: Amanda Seyfried
FilmGordon (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
Amanda Seyfried On The Dream She Never Thought She Had
Sarina Bellissimo (YouTube)
December 3, 2020
Interview: Amanda Seyfried star of ‘Mank’ (Netflix)
AwardsWatch (YouTube)
December 3, 2020
Amanda Seyfried on Oscar Buzz, Her Birthday & Scaring Her Husband
Jimmy Kimmel Live (YouTube)
December 3, 2020
Amanda Seyfried talks about jumping into history, Black & White cinema and working with Gary Oldman.
Review Nation (YouTube)
December 4, 2020
Amanda Seyfried discusses her character Marion Davie on Netflix’s MANK
Jana On Camera (YouTube)
December 4, 2020
Amanda Seyfried talks about playing Marion Davies In David Fincher’s Mank
blackfilmandtv (YouTube)
December 4, 2020
MANK: Hablamos con Amanda Seyfried
La Cosa Cine (YouTube)
December 4, 2020
Amanda Seyfried on Mank I Netflix Interview
Brief Take (YouTube)
December 4, 2020
Amanda Seyfried on The Graham Norton Show (2020)
The Graham Norton Show (YouTube)
December 4, 2020
MANK | AMANDA SEYFRIED REVELA CÓMO FUE HACER UNA PELÍCULA COMO SI HUBIERAN FILMADO EN LOS 1930’S.
Movies Con Jovanny (YouTube)
December 6, 2020
Amanda Seyfried Takes Us from Lessons Learned on Mean Girls to Making Mank with David Fincher
Collider (YouTube)
December 5, 2020
Conversations at Home with Amanda Seyfried of MANK
SAG-AFTRA Foundation (YouTube)
January 13, 2021
MANK | Entrevista a Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins y Tom Pelphrey
SensaCine (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
‘Mank’ Interviews with Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey
CinemaBlend (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
Cinema | Mank: il nostro incontro con Amanda Seyfried e Tom Pelphrey
BadTaste.it (YouTube)
December 3, 2020
Amanda Seyfried e Lily Collins: como foi desaparecer no mundo de ‘MANK’
UOL (YouTube)
December 3, 2020
Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey – Mank | Röportaj #18
FilmLoverss (YouTube)
December 4, 2020
Amanda Seyfried Dishes on Her Farm Life
Late Night with Seth Meyers (YouTube)
December 16, 2020
Tackling an Ingenue | Amanda Seyfried on Marion Davis and Mank
Netflix (YouTube)
January 14, 2021
Amanda Seyfried reflects on her path to career-best notices for ‘Mank’
Riley Chow
January 21, 2021
Gold Derby
Actors on Actors: Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Kirby
Kate Aurthur
January 29, 2021
Variety
Amanda Seyfried Reacts To ‘Mank’ Oscar Buzz
ET Canada (YouTube)
January 29, 2021
Amanda Seyfried on Oscar buzz, saying ‘no’ to superhero films
Associated Press (YouTube)
January 29, 2021
Amanda Seyfried talks her new film ‘Mank’ and farm life
Popcorn with Peter Travers (YouTube)
February 19, 2021
Amanda Seyfried talks about her new film, ‘Mank’
Good Morning America (YouTube)
February 19, 2021
Mank | Conversation with Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave
Netflix (YouTube)
February 26, 202
Cher in Conversation with Amanda Seyfried
Netflix Awards FYC
March 4, 2021
A conversation with Actor Amanda Seyfried on behalf of MANK. Moderated by Cher.
Amanda Seyfried’s First Magazine Cover Was with Clay Aiken | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (YouTube)
March 6, 2021
MANK | Q&A with Amanda Seyfried
American Cinematheque
April 5, 2021
Amanda Seyfried Marks a Career High in David Fincher’s ‘Mank’
IndieWire (YouTube)
April 8, 2021
Mank: Academy Award Nominee Amanda Seyfried with Entertainment Weekly’s Leah Greenblatt
92nd Street Y (YouTube)
April 15, 2021
Amanda Seyfried reacts to Golden Globe nomination for ‘Mank’
Sam Rubin
February 3, 2021
KTLA5
Amanda Seyfried on the hit film ‘Mank’
Amanda Seyfried on ‘Mank’ Marion Davies and David Fincher
IMDb
April 15, 2021
Amanda Seyfried on “Mank”: “I have never seen myself dressed up that way.”
Scott Orlin
November 23, 2020
The Golden Globe (HFPA)
Amanda Seyfried and Lily Collins On Going Old-School in Mank
John Fardy
November 27, 2020
Screentime (Newstalk Podcast)
Present Company: Amanda Seyfried
Krista Smith
December 4, 2020
Present Company (Apple Podcasts)
Krista Smith
December 4, 2020
Netflix Queue
Amanda Seyfried Finally Stakes Her Claim
The “Mean Girls” and “Mamma Mia!” actress knows her performance as Marion Davies in“Mank” will be a turning point in her career. But first, she had to put some distance between herself and Hollywood.
Kyle Buchanan
November 29, 2020
The New York Times
Amanda Seyfried Finds the Nuances in Marion Davies in ‘Mank’
Frank J. Avella
December 2, 2020
Awards Daily
Amanda Seyfried on working with director David Fincher on ‘Mank’
Susan King
December 13, 2020
Gold Derby
Rodrigo Perez
January 25, 2021
The Playlist
The 2015 Movie Draft. Plus: Amanda Seyfried!
Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, and Chris Ryan
January 26, 2021
The Big Picture (The Ringer Podcasts)
Interview: Amanda Seyfried on Marion Davies, Old Hollywood and ‘Mank’
Karen M. Peterson
January 28, 2021
We Live Entertainment
Awards Daily Podcast: Amanda Seyfried on What Marion Davies Would Think of Her ‘Mank’ Triumph
Clarence Moye
January 29, 2021
Awards Daily
Amanda Seyfried is not taking this moment for granted
Lindsey Bahr
February 23, 2021
AP
Katey Rich
February 23, 2021
Vanity Fair
Awards Spotlight: Amanda Seyfried Marks a Career High in David Fincher’s ‘Mank’ (Watch)
Anne Thompson
February 26, 2021
IndieWire
An Intimate Look at Amanda Seyfried’s Virtual Golden Globes Celebration
Erik Messerschmidt captured the night in a series of intimate photos for Vogue.
Sarah Spellings
March 1, 2021
Vogue
Alison Stewart
March 3, 2021
All Of It (WNYC)
Interview: Amanda Seyfried Talks ‘Mank’ and Being a Good Person
Joey Magidson
March 6, 2021
Awards Radar
The Next Best Picture Podcast: Interview With “Mank” Star, Amanda Seyfried
Daniel Howat
March 6, 2021
Next Best Picture
The Awardist podcast: How Amanda Seyfried pushed herself to new heights in Mank
David Canfield
March 08, 2021
Entertainment Weekly
The Jess Cagle Podcast w/ Julia Cunningham: Amanda Seyfried
Jess Cagle
March 11, 202
The Jess Cagle Podcast w/ Julia Cunningham (Apple Podcasts)
Amanda Seyfried Interviewed by Cher
March 25, 2021
Netflix Queue
The Envelope Podcast: Amanda Seyfried
Mark Olsen
April 14, 2021
The Envelope (Los Angeles Times)
Lily Collins plays Rita Alexander, Herman’s secretary, in Mank.
Lily Collins Interview for Netflix’s Oscar Award Contender MANK
BlackTree TV (YouTube)
November 19, 2020
Interview: Lily Collins – Mank
CineXpress (YouTube)
November 20, 2020
Lily Collins Talks EMILY IN PARIS and MANK
Jake’s Takes (YouTube)
Nov 19, 2020
Lily Collins details “MANK”
FabTV (YouTube)
November 21, 2020
Lily Collins Talks WEDDING PLANNING and ‘Emily in Paris’ Season 2 (Exclusive)
Entertainment Tonight (YouTube)
November 26, 2020
Lily Collins: intervista ai protagonisti di Mank di David Fincher
Cinefilos_it (YouTube)
November 28, 2020
‘WE’RE SO READY!’ Lily Collins on Emily in Paris S2!
On Demand Entertainment (YouTube)
November 28, 2020
Lily Collins Dishes on Engagement to Charlie McDowell, Plus: Her New Movie ‘Mank’
extratv (YouTube)
November 30, 2020
Nelson Aspen chats with Amanda Seyfried & Lily Collins about “Mank”
NelsonAspen (YouTube)
November 30, 2020
Lily Collins Reveals the Correct Pronunciation of Emily in Paris
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (YouTube)
November 30, 2020
Lily Collins talks about new movie ‘Mank’
Today TV (YouTube)
December 1, 2020
Lily Collins On Netflix’s “Mank” & “Emily In Paris”: “I Knew I Was Going To Be Learning Something New”
CBS Los Angeles (YouTube)
December 1, 2020
Lily Collins MANK Interview | Netflix
kinowetter (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
Lily Collins On “Mank” And The Success of “Emily in Paris”
Sarina Bellissimo (YouTube)
December 3, 2020
Lily Collins Mank Interview
DE PELICULA (YouTube)
December 3, 2020
Mank: Hablamos con Lily Collins
La Cosa Cine (YouTube)
December 4, 2020
Lily Collins on ‘Mank’ and Discovering David Fincher Is Funny
Collider Interviews (YouTube)
December 7, 2020
Q&A with Lily Collins on Emily in Paris & Mank
In Creative Company (YouTube)
January 14, 2021
MANK | Entrevista a Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins y Tom Pelphrey
SensaCine (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
‘Mank’ Interviews with Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey
CinemaBlend (YouTube)
December 2, 2020
Amanda Seyfried e Lily Collins: como foi desaparecer no mundo de ‘MANK’
UOL (YouTube)
December 3, 2020
Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey – Mank | Röportaj #18
FilmLoverss (YouTube)
December 4, 2020
Hollywood’s Gary Oldman, Lily Collins talk ‘Mank’
Arab News (YouTube)
December 10, 2020
Amanda Seyfried and Lily Collins On Going Old-School in Mank
John Fardy
November 27, 2020
Screentime (Newstalk Podcast)
Inside Total Film
December 3, 2020
Krista Smith
December 11, 2020
Present Company (Apple Podcasts)
Krista Smith
December 11, 2020
Netflix Queue
Lily Collins on Netflix’s New Oscar Contender Mank—and the Second Season of Emily in Paris
Radhika Seth
November 26, 2020
Vogue
Lily Collins Earned Her Spot by Putting in the Work + Pushing Through the ‘Nos’
Elyse Roth
November 18, 2020
Backstage
‘Emily in Paris’ star Lily Collins plays the audience’s proxy in ‘Mank’
In the Oscar-magnet Netflix film, her typist character brings ‘a young and fresh perspective’ to her boss, the booze-soaked narcissist writing ‘Citizen Kane.’
Richard Roeper
December 1, 2020
Chicago Sun-Times
Lily Collins Speaks to Alber Elbaz About Beginning New Chapters in Film and Fashion
Joshua Glass
December 12, 2020
L’Officiel
Charles Dance plays newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst in Mank.
Dance appeared as prison doctor Clemens in Fincher’s first film Alien3 (1992):
“First of all, I’m a huge fan of his. And I don’t say that about all directors that I’ve worked with. But when I first worked with David, the minute he walked onto the set and started to talk, I thought ‘right, this guy is clever'”.
“Mank”: Charles Dance im Interview
CINEMA-Magazin (YouTube)
November 13, 2020
The Gone Girl director is known for the psychological depth, visual symbolism and pulpy thrills of his films but all roads lead back to his tempestuous – and mysterious – collaborations with Madge.
Adam White
November 6, 2020
Independent
It was in the winter of 1993 that David Fincher murdered Madonna. The crime scene: a music video for one of the latter’s greatest singles, “Bad Girl”, and what would be the last of the pair’s four collaborations. In its wake, Fincher would become one of cinema’s most revered directors, the prickly genius behind Se7en (1995), The Social Network (2010), Gone Girl (2014) and the forthcoming Mank. But it’s “Bad Girl” that remains Fincher’s most important venture. It is a short, stylish erotic thriller that begins and ends with Madonna’s lifeless corpse; a video that nods toward the filmmaker Fincher would become, and a final act of artistic symbiosis between two titans of pop culture.
Back in the Nineties, Fincher was coming to the end of a luminous eight years as a music video visionary. The likes of Aerosmith’s “Janie’s Got a Gun” and George Michael’s supermodel-filled “Freedom ‘90” were gorgeous exercises in style and short-form storytelling. Little was more thrilling, though, than his work with Madonna – from the grandiose myth-making of “Vogue” and “Express Yourself” to the richly personal “Oh Father”. They both recognised the cinematic potential of the form, even if it came at a cost – all of their collaborations rank among the most expensive videos ever made.
That trilogy of music videos – which came before “Bad Girl” and were shot over the course of 10 months between 1989 and 1990 – would reflect a fruitful creative tussle between the pair. Despite Fincher’s relative lack of clout in the industry at the time, and especially compared to Madonna’s cultural ubiquity, they would approach their work as somewhat begrudging – and almost flirtatious – equals.
In interviews, Fincher recalled expressing mock outrage when Madonna asked him if he had heard of Metropolis, the landmark sci-fi film she wanted to replicate for “Express Yourself”. Madonna sneered at his idea to have her crawl across the floor, lick milk from a bowl, and then pour it over herself in the same video, assuming it might look like a student film. It turned out to be one of the video’s most memorable set pieces. The visual for “Oh Father”, meanwhile, a psychological wormhole into Madonna’s childhood and the emotional toll of her mother’s death, only came about at Fincher’s insistence. Madonna had been unsure it would even work as a single. Fincher, though, saw it as ripe for visual accompaniment, and captured her vulnerability like no other.
The Fincher Analyst 