F for Fake - Criterion Collection
Starring: William Alland, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Peter Bogdanovich, Joseph Cotten, Gary Graver
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To Orson Welles's F for Fake, a documentary would be somewhat deceitful, but deceit itself is very much the subject of this curious film essay. Welles ruminates on the nature of artistic fakery by two examples, that the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and the writer Clifford Irving, whose bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes the way a small media flurry in the 1970s. Postmodernist that he is, Wells then to tell, and edit the film in a hectic way perverse to blur the lines between what is real and what is illusion, what kind of an often bewildering, but artwork for itself. We also see the material we have observed how they contribute to the edges in the editing room, Welles. The specter of Welles is often maligned later career hangs over the proceedings like a challenge - he is really this strange movie about chicanery, or will it become one of the many unfinished experiments of his twilight years? Fortunately, the Welles Proceedings with a delightful sequence about Picasso, lust, and what is real art. F For Fake is a good example of a master filmmaker, at least a couple of tricks remains the tongue. - Ryan Boudinot
Price: $28.00
To Orson Welles's F for Fake, a documentary would be somewhat deceitful, but deceit itself is very much the subject of this curious film essay. Welles ruminates on the nature of artistic fakery by two examples, that the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and the writer Clifford Irving, whose bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes the way a small media flurry in the 1970s. Postmodernist that he is, Wells then to tell, and edit the film in a hectic way perverse to blur the lines between what is real and what is illusion, what kind of an often bewildering, but artwork for itself. We also see the material we have observed how they contribute to the edges in the editing room, Welles. The specter of Welles is often maligned later career hangs over the proceedings like a challenge - he is really this strange movie about chicanery, or will it become one of the many unfinished experiments of his twilight years? Fortunately, the Welles Proceedings with a delightful sequence about Picasso, lust, and what is real art. F For Fake is a good example of a master filmmaker, at least a couple of tricks remains the tongue. - Ryan Boudinot
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