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Centurions: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane

Orson Welles, Citizen Kane

07/02/2007

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Centurions, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane

Peter Bogdanovich, David Thompson and Jonathan Rosenbaum discuss Orson Welles.

Peter Bogdanovich, David Thompson and Jonathan Rosenbaum discuss Orson Welles and his masterpiece.

The greatest film of all time? 'The best train set a boy ever had?' A movie about a sledge? In 1941 Welles bullied, cajoled and badgered his fellow collaborators and turned the dream factory of Hollywood on its head to give the world 'Citizen Kane'. A first-time film-maker's masterclass - a deep focus dream of an American life. 

Biographer and writer David Thomson, director Peter Bogdanovich and screenwriter John Logan celebrate this universal portrait of failure, decline and self-destruction that has haunted film-makers and audiences ever since. 

Produced by Mark Burnham. 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.

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