F for Fake

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F for Fake

Director:
Orson Welles
87 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles's free - form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self - described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career - the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of world - renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles embarks on a dizzying cinematic journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes - not the least of whom is Welles himself. Charming and inventive, F for Fake is an inspired prank and a searching examination of the essential duplicity of cinema.

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Details

Runtime:
87 min.

Genre:
Documentary

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • New, restored high-definition digital transferAudio commentary by star and co - writer Oja Kodar and director of photography Gary Graver
  • Introduction by director Peter Bogdanovich
  • Orson Welles: One - Man Band (1995), an 88 - minutedocumentary about Welles's unfinished projects
  • Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery (1997), a52 - minute documentary about art forger Elmyr de Hory
  • A 60 Minutes interview with Clifford Irving, from 2000, about his Howard Hughes autobiography hoax
  • A 1972 Hughes press conference exposing Irving's hoax
  • Extended 9 - minute trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
  • Plus: A new essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum

 

 

 

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