When Mank came out I remembered there was another movie I had seen about the making of Citizen Kane, an HBO original called RKO 281 that came out in the late ’90s. I think I’ve mentioned before my interest in revisiting the TV movies of my youth and this is one of them. I must’ve watched RKO 281 when I home sick from school around age 13, just when I wa…
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