After seeing this film, the sheer impudence of what Welles was trying to do with CITIZEN KANE really shines through. It really was a world where one powerful man could affect the careers of everybody in Hollywood!
Liev Schreiber is terrific; he doesn't look like Welles, but he really sounds like him. He's very good as the possessed obsessed genius totally devoted to his film's vision. James Cromwell is suitably frightening as the multimillionaire. I even liked Melanie Griffith as Marion Davies (the real life version of KANE's Susan Alexander). The scenes shot in San Simeon are wonderful.
Liev Schreiber is terrific; he doesn't look like Welles, but he really sounds like him. He's very good as the possessed obsessed genius totally devoted to his film's vision. James Cromwell is suitably frightening as the multimillionaire. I even liked Melanie Griffith as Marion Davies (the real life version of KANE's Susan Alexander). The scenes shot in San Simeon are wonderful.