F for Fake (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) PG
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- Audio Commentary by Star and Co-Writer Oja Kodar and Director of Photography Gary Graver
- Introduction by Director Peter Bogdanovich
- Extended 9-Minute Trailer Orson Welles: One-Man Band (1955), An 88-Minute Documentary About Welles's Unfinished Projects Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery (1997), A 52-Minute Documentary About Art Forger Elmyr de Hory
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 26, 2005
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten & Orson Welles | |
Performer: | Laurence Harvey & Paul Stewart | |
Directed by | Orson Welles | |
Edited by | Dominique Engerer & Marie-Sophie Dubus | |
Screenwriting by | Orson Welles & Oja Kodar | |
Composition by | Michel Legrand | |
Produced by | Dominique Antoine & François Reichenbach | |
Director of Photography: | Christian Odasso & Gary Graver |
Entertainment Reviews:
Welles splices together a nonlinear meditation on fraud with a jump-cut, call-and-response style that predates MTV and other imitators.
Entertainment Weekly
...[An] artfully assembled essay about forgery, swindling and living the good life on modest resources...
USA Today
4 stars out of 5 -- Playful one moment, contemplative the next, it's prankster radicalism....A masterpiece of deceit...
Uncut
[Welles] reserves his richest scorn, and his greatest delight, for his mendacious, capacious self.
Wall Street Journal
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] definition-defying examination of trickery itself.
Total Film
...A charming, witty meditation....If it is a fake, it's a marvelous one...
New York Times
[The film] celebrates magic and sleight of hand, a skill Welles possessed from a young age and which he returns to with brio...
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Description by OLDIES.com:
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.
Product Description:
Orson Welles has a ball examining the nature of what is real and what is fake in the funny, bizarre F FOR FAKE. Four people stand at the center of this documentary: Elmyr de Hory, who some believe forged more than a thousand masterpieces, many of which hang in some of the world's most famous museums; Clifford Irving, who is not only out to prove what a fake Elmyr is but also wrote a fake biography of Howard Hughes; Oja Kodar, who claims that Pablo Picasso painted 22 canvases of her that no one has ever seen; and Welles himself, who harks back to his days creating the havoc-causing THE WAR OF THE WORLDS for radio. But the true star of the film is the editing; from absurd stock footage to shots of Welles smirking into the camera from different locations to scenes with a monkey scurrying about, the film is vastly entertaining to watch. F FOR FAKE is an underrated, underappreciated work of comic genius about the nature of reality, celebrity, and art, by a master filmmaker showing a surprisingly wicked sense of humor.
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