F for Fake (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) PG
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- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 12, 2014
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Oja Kodar & Joseph Cotten | |
Performer: | Orson Welles, Paul Stewart & Laurence Harvey | |
Directed by | Orson Welles | |
Edited by | Marie-Sophie Dubus & Dominique Engerer | |
Screenwriting by | Orson Welles & Oja Kodar | |
Composition by | Michel Legrand | |
Produced by | Dominique Antoine & François Reichenbach | |
Director of Photography: | Gary Graver & Christian Odasso |
Entertainment Reviews:
[Welles] reserves his richest scorn, and his greatest delight, for his mendacious, capacious self.
Wall Street Journal
Welles splices together a nonlinear meditation on fraud with a jump-cut, call-and-response style that predates MTV and other imitators.
Entertainment Weekly
...A charming, witty meditation....If it is a fake, it's a marvelous one...
New York Times
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] definition-defying examination of trickery itself.
Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- Playful one moment, contemplative the next, it's prankster radicalism....A masterpiece of deceit...
Uncut
[The film] celebrates magic and sleight of hand, a skill Welles possessed from a young age and which he returns to with brio...
Premiere
...[An] artfully assembled essay about forgery, swindling and living the good life on modest resources...
USA Today
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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