Article: Film Studies: 'Citizen Kane' must be banned - for its sake, and for ou rs

Article: Simon callow likes a Welsh audience
South Wales Evening Post;  March 27, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Four Weddings star Simon Callow will be in Cardiff next month playing ... career was a disaster. He made Citizen Kane when he was 23 and nothing of any ... fascinated by what happened to him after Citizen Kane and so on, but once I started working ...

Article: Biographer Simon Callow has boundless energy of his ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 6, 1996 ;     700+ words ...NEW YORK _ Simon Callow is the first to concede that the subject of his huge and hugely ... The Road to Xanadu'' ends in 1941, with the release of ``Citizen Kane,'' an undisputed masterpiece of cinema. Welles was 26 when this ...

Article: Genius without portfolio FILM Orson Welles: Hello Americans By ...
The Independent on Sunday;  May 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... added to the already abundant persona. Simon Callow starts this second volume of his biography ... that, ever since since Welles made Citizen Kane in 1941, no one in the history of cinema ... Welles was supposed to have broken with Citizen Kane. Callous and ultimately wasteful as ...

Article: REVIEWS: American Film-Maker; Orson Welles - Hello Americans, by ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  June 3, 2006 ;     556 words ... ... trilogy - the third is yet to come - actor Simon Callow explores in great depth his subject ... greatest success, the legendary film Citizen Kane, for which he was producer-director ... successes, which went to his head. After Citizen Kane, he was given many opportunities to ...

Article: The Lost Boy His mother called him ugly. His father was a racist. ...
The Sunday Herald;  April 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... keen to get his teeth into some decentmaterial, lunch with Simon Callow is a deeply nourishing feast. He serves up his 56 years ... Dealing with the wilderness years between the release of Citizen Kane in 1941 and Welles leaving America for Europe in 1947, it ...

Article: Why movie star John felt Simon Callow was just too ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  October 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... in the hit Richard Curtis movie. He admitted he did not like the idea of being romantically cast alongside portly actor Simon Callow, who played Gareth, and confessed he did not think the well-respected English actor was handsome enough. 'When I heard ...

Article: Theatre Review: Hot Show: 66A Church Road; Simon ...
The Scotsman;  August 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... TRAVERSE THEATRE (VENUE 15) **** SIMON CALLOW - A FESTIVAL DICKENS, ASSEMBLY @ GEORGE ... eccentricity in the England of the 1840's. Simon Callow's 100-minute Festival Dickens ... Road until 24 August, today 10pm; Simon Callow until 25 August, today 2pm