Simon Callow
1) Orson Welles
Author
Series
Orson Welles (Simon Callow) volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1997-
Language
English
Description
Vol. 1 traces Welles's portentous childhood; his youth in New York, where he worked with director John Houseman; his notorious radio career; and the making of Citizen Kane. Vol. 2 continues by examining the years from Citizen Kane (1941) to Macbeth (1948). It also looks beyond Welles' Hollywood movie career to his work on radio and the stage during that same period. Vol. 3 reveals what it was like to be in Welles's intimate circle. It opens with Welles's...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Simon Callow, the celebrated author of Orson Welles, delivers a dazzling, swift, and accessible biography of the musical titan Richard Wagner and his profoundly problematic legacy--a fresh take for seasoned acolytes and the perfect introduction for new fans. (Original), 256pp.
Richard Wagner's music dramas have never been more popular or more divisive. His ten masterpieces, created against the backdrop of a continent in severe...
Author
Series
Orson Welles (Simon Callow) volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The third volume of Simon Callow's acclaimed Orson Welles biography, covering the period of his exile from America (1947 & 1964), when he produced some of his greatest works, including Touch of Evil. In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic and all-inclusive four-volume survey of Orson Welles's life and work, the celebrated British actor Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex, contradictory...
Author
Series
Orson Welles (Simon Callow) volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007, 2006.
Language
English
Description
The second volume of Callow's definitive biography of Orson Welles examines the years from Citizen Kane to Macbeth in which Welles's Hollywood film career came apart. Callow's scrupulous analysis reveals the immense and self-defeating complexities of Welles's temperament.
6) At Freddie's
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Hartcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Fitzgerald writes a story about the formidable proprietress of "Freddie's, " the Temple Stage School, which provides child actors for London's West End theaters, a promising child actor and his rival, and a man with wicked plans to rescue Freddie's from insolvency.
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Dominating the landscape for centuries, ancient cathedrals and abbeys reflect Britain's turbulent history through their architectural grandeur. The film explores cathedrals and abbeys found throughout England and Wales, featuring interviews with historians and experts and breathtaking footage filming their legendary facades and soaring interior spaces.
Publisher
Illuminations Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow, BEING SHAKESPEARE is a one-man show about the life and work of the world's greatest playwright. Written by the renowned scholar Jonathan Bate, and taking its cue from Jacques' famous 'Seven Ages of Man' speech in As You Like It, the drama traces Shakespeare's life from his birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 to his burial there fifty-two years later. Weaving together this story with extracts...
9) American
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1940s, director Orson Welles navigates his meteoric Hollywood rise. As WWII begins, a Japanese American boy visits abroad, and an African American soldier enlists in the army. As the story heads towards 1947, each character follows their own ambitions in search of their American identity.
10) Magician
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A documentary examining the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Featuring interviews with other legendary directors such as Steven Spielberg, Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin, Martin Scorsese and Richard Linklater. Nominated for an Audience Choice Award at the **Chicago...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, and Rod Steiger star in this adaptation of the Carson McCullers novella. Merchant Ivory veteran Simon Callow's only turn as a director is a twisted Southern Gothic dark comedy set in a rural town in the deep South. Redgrave plays Miss Amelia, the eccentric proprietor of the town's only café and, more importantly to her grip on the townsfolk, the owner of a secret moonshine still. Her domineering hold on the town...
12) Maurice
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, MAURICE is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. At a time when homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced...
14) The Cleaner: S2
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It's the cops' job to clean up the city, but it's Wicky's job to clean up the crime scenes. BAFTA winner Greg Davies returns in this truly arresting comedy.Wicky is a crime scene cleaner. When the detectives are done he moves in, armed with his bleach and scrubbing brushes. In each episode, Wicky encounters many big personalities - all in the wrong place at the wrong time. And as Wicky's luck would have it, there's also a pub in desperate need of...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deep in the passageways below the Paris Opera lives a lonely, talented, horribly disfigured man who revels in terrorizing the theater's employees as THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. But when the masked Phantom sees young Christine Daaé, his heart melts. He secretly trains her, transforms her into a star ... and loves her. But when she cannot return his affection, as her heart already belongs to another, all the pain that the Phantom has held within is revealed...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby; his assistant, DS Jamie Winter; and new pathologist, Dr. Fleur Perkins.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After the daring rescue of a spider, a young boy named James gains possession of some magic crocodile tongues. When James spills them in the garden, out sprouts an enormous peach! Climbing inside, he meets an astonishing cast of characters and embarks on a magical odyssey full of thrills and adventure.
19) Viceroy's house
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
20) Othello
Series
Criterion collection volume 870
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.
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