Simon Hartog
Simon Hartog (8 February 1940 – 18 August 1992) was a British filmmaker who worked as both director and producer.
He helped develop an independent film industry in the United Kingdom (UK), founding London Film-Makers' Co-op in the 1960s, key to the avant-garde; working on independent documentaries, and founding the production company,
www.largedoorltd.com Large Door Ltd. Through the Independent Filmmakers' Association, he campaigned for an independent Channel 4.
Through his company, Hartog produced a series on world cinema, "Visions," that ran on the channel for three years.
Long interested in the Third Cinema of African and Latin American nations, Hartog at one time worked for The Other Cinema, a distribution company in the UK, to gain such films wider audiences.
In the 1970s, he served as a consultant to help the newly independent Mozambique set up a film industry.
After having grown up from age eight in the United States, he returned to England and Italy in the 1960s for graduate work and settled in the UK.
Christian Wagner
Christian Wagner is an American film editor who has edited films such as" Face/ Off"( 1997) and( 2000).
He is also best known collaborating numerous times with film director Tony Scott, from the films" True Romance"( 1993) to" Domino"( 2005).
David Byrne
David Byrne( born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish- born American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, artist, actor, writer, music theorist, and filmmaker who is a founding member and the principal songwriter, lead singer and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.
Byrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction.
He has received Academy, Grammy, and Golden Globe Awards, and is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
The Battle Over Citizen Kane is a 1996 documentary film about the clash between newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and actor/ writer/ director Orson Welles over Welles's 1941 motion picture" Citizen Kane", which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time.
" The Battle Over Citizen Kane" aired January 29, 1996, as an episode of the Public Broadcast System's" The American Experience" series.
The documentary was narrated by Richard Ben Cramer, who co-wrote the program with Thomas Lennon.
The rights to" The Battle Over Citizen Kane" were acquired by Scott Free productions in 1997 and adapted into a screenplay for the 1999 HBO movie" RKO 281", directed by Benjamin Ross.
281 was the number assigned by RKO studios to identify the production internally.
Stig Larsson (author)
Stig Håkan Larsson is a Swedish writer of novels, dramas, poetry, political essays and short stories, film writer, director and actor.
True Stories (film)
True Stories is a 1986 American musical satirical comedy film directed by David Byrne, who stars alongside John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, and Spalding Gray.
The majority of the film's music is supplied by Talking Heads.
A soundtrack album, titled" Sounds from True Stories", featured songs by Byrne, Talking Heads, Terry Allen& The Panhandle Mystery Band, and others.
Around the same time, Talking Heads released an album titled" True Stories", composed of studio recordings of songs featured in the film.
" True Stories" was released by Warner Bros. in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Sweden in 1986, with limited release elsewhere the following year.
Byrne was given much creative control over the motion picture's direction, largely due to the mainstream success of Talking Heads' 1984 concert film" Stop Making Sense".
Ruth Warrick
Ruth Elizabeth Warrick( June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005) was an American singer, actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on" All My Children", which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005.
She made her film debut in" Citizen Kane", and years later celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of the film to a packed, standing- room- only audience.
Over the years, she collected several books about Orson Welles and" Citizen Kane", in which she wrote" Property of Ruth Warrick, Mrs. Citizen Kane".
Samar Yazbek
Samar Yazbek is a Syrian writer and journalist.
She was born in Jableh, Syria, near Latakia, in 1970, and studied Arabic literature at Latakia university.
She has written in a wide variety of genres- novels, short stories, film scripts, television dramas, film and TV criticism, literary narratives.
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-screenwriter, director and star.
The picture was Welles's first feature film.
Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing( Original Screenplay) by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles.
Considered by many critics, filmmakers, and fans to be the greatest film ever made," Citizen Kane" was voted as such in five consecutive British Film Institute" Sight& Sound" polls of critics, and it topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as its 2007 update.
" Citizen Kane" is particularly praised for Gregg Toland's cinematography, Robert Wise's editing, Bernard Herrmann's music, and its narrative structure, all of which have been considered innovative and precedent- setting.
The quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a character based in part upon the American newspaper magnates William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, and aspects of the screenwriters' own lives.
Upon its release, Hearst prohibited mention of the film in any of his newspapers.
Kane's career in the publishing world is born of idealistic social service, but gradually evolves into a ruthless pursuit of power.
Narrated principally through flashbacks, the story is told through the research of a newsreel reporter seeking to solve the mystery of the newspaper magnate's dying word:" Rosebud".
After the Broadway successes of Welles's Mercury Theatre and the controversial 1938 radio broadcast" The War of the Worlds" on" The Mercury Theatre on the Air", Welles was courted by Hollywood.
He signed a contract with RKO Pictures in 1939.
Although it was unusual for an untried director, he was given the freedom to develop his own story, to use his own cast and crew, and to have final cut privilege.
Following two abortive attempts to get a project off the ground, he wrote the screenplay for" Citizen Kane", collaborating on the effort with Herman Mankiewicz.
Principal photography took place in 1940 and the film received its American release in 1941.
While a critical success," Citizen Kane" failed to recoup its costs at the box office.
The film faded from view after its release, but was subsequently returned to the public's attention when it was praised by such French critics as André Bazin and given an American revival in 1956.
The film was released on Blu-ray on September 13, 2011, for a special 70 th- anniversary edition.
" Citizen Kane" was an inductee of the 1989 inaugural group of 25 films that established the National Film Registry list.
Beyond Citizen Kane
Beyond Citizen Kane is a 1993 British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and first broadcast on Channel 4.
It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group, the largest in Brazil, and discusses the group's influence, power, and political connections.
Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho was criticised and compared to the fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film "Citizen Kane."
According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in manipulation of news to influence public opinion.
Rede Globo objected to the film's position and tried to buy Brazilian rights, but Hartog had already made agreements to give non-TV rights to political and cultural groups in Brazil.
However, the documentary cannot be broadcast on TV in Brazil since it contains large sections of footage owned by Globo.
Nevertheless, copies sold in Britain reached Brazil in the 1990s and circulated widely there.
In addition, since the Internet boom of the early 21st century, the film has been released on video sharing websites YouTube and Google Video.

Question: Do both films Beyond Citizen Kane and True Stories (film) have the directors that share the same nationality?
Answer: no