F For Fake [Criterion Voyager]

DVD/APPROX. 87 MINS./1976/US NR

Main feature:

Release Apr 26, 2005
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs.
Audio English: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1976
Genre Documentary

Special features:

  • Disc 1
  • Audio commentary by star and co-writer Oja Kodar and director of photography Gary Graver
  • Introduction by director Peter Bogdonavich
  • Extended 9-minute trailer
  • Disc 2
  • Orson Welles: One-Man Band (1988), 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
  • A 60 Minutes interview with Clifford Irving, from 2000, about his Howard Hughes autobiography hoax
  • Plus: A new essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum

Synopsis:



Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles' free-form documentary ifor 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 goes on a dizzying cinematic journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes-not the least of which is Welles himself. Charming and inventive, F for Fake is an inspired examination of the essential duplicity of cinema.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Arthur AgeeOrson WellesWilliam Gates"F For Fake"
Written byOrson Wellesdirected byOrson Welles
Production Year: 1976

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