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Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles' 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 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.
USA / English
| Orson Welles | Himself |
| Oja Kodar | The Girl |
| William Alland | |
| Jean-Pierre Aumont | |
| Peter Bogdanovich | |
| Joseph Cotten | Special Participant |
| Gary Graver | Special Participant |
| Paul Stewart | Special Participant |
| Richard Wilson | Special Participant |
| Fran Reichenbach | |
| Alexander Welles | Special Participant |
| G | |
| Julio Palinkas | Special Participant |
| François Reichenbach | Special Participant |
| Andrés Vicente Gómez | Special Participant |
| Director | Orson Welles |
| Producer | Dominique Antoine; François Reichenbach |
| Writer | Orson Welles; Oja Kodar |
| Edition Details | |
| Distributor | Criterion |
| Barcode | 037429206928 |
| Region | Region 1 |
| Release Date | 4/26/2005 |
| Packaging | Custom Case |
| Screen Ratio | Widescreen 1.66:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Subtitles | English |
| Audio Tracks | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono |
| Layers | Single Side, Dual Layer |
| No. of Disks/Tapes | 2 |
| Personal Details | |
| Purchase Price | $39.95 |
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Features
| Disc 1: | 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 |