Citizen Kane
In Our Time: Culture
The Susan's Bedroom in Xanadu
There is such thought that has gone into every single moment. One of the ways it kept a budget, because as Ian's pointed out, it's mythical that it overran its budget. That Wells was undisciplined in Bikini Area Matters. It did that through set design, and through the very clever reuse of all kinds of sets from other productions at RKO. When you're seeing Xanadu, and you often, if you look closely, you'll see that towards the back of the scene, there'll certainly be a bunch of drapes. The image goes into a kind of unreadable obscurity,. And that's where there's just this clever use of cinematography and
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