F for Fake - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Gary Graver, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Joseph Cotten, Peter Bogdanovich, William AllandBrand: Image Entertainment
Primary Contributor: Oja Kodar
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of F for Fake - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: a thesis on the fake
Summary: 3 Stars
Not much to say about this film. Treat it as a part documentary forgery/bootleg concepts and exposition into fakery. Wells did not know that at the start of filming that Irving would forge a book about Hughes. We also get to see the events that caused Elmyr de Hory to commit suicide a few years later after he learned that France would no longer protect him from Spanish prosecutors. Certain people cannot be caged he choose freedom in the purest sensed death. But I digress. Also Wells takes his own stab at forgery with a small skit about Picasso and an old forger. What is "fake" anyways? And what is its relationship to the world? This is what Wells want the viewer to think about. A must watch for Wells fans and those interested in art and hooliganism. The highlight of the film is a wordless montage (filmed at different place and time) between De Hory and Irving about De Hory signing the bootlegs he did, thereby making them "authentic" pieces. This kind of editing is common place now but as usual Wells was ahead of his time.
Personally, I would like to find a film that is an antithesis to it, one about ownership and perhaps intellectual rights, creating an Aristotelian synthesis. But that's just me, every ying has a yang.
Summary of F for Fake - Criterion Collection
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles' free-form documentary, 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 poignant, F for Fake is an inspired prank and a searching examination of the essential duplicity of cinema. Criterion's two-disc DVD edition also features an introduction by Peter Bogdanovich, audio commentary by director of photography Gary Graver, an hour long documentary on Welles' unfinished projects, a documentary on the life and works of de Hory, and the theatrical trailer.To call 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 through two examples, that of infamous art forger Elmyr de Hory and the writer Clifford Irving, whose bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes set off a minor media flurry in the 1970s. Postmodernist that he is, Wells then proceeds to narrate and edit the film in such a perversely frenetic way as to blur the lines between what is real and what is deception, making for an often confusing but engaging work of art in itself. We even see the footage we've been watching as it's being spliced together in Welles's editing room. The specter of Welles's often maligned later career hangs over the proceedings like a challenge--is he going to actually complete this strange movie about chicanery, or will it become one of the many unfinished experiments of his twilight years? Happily, Welles concludes the proceedings with a delightful sequence about Picasso, lust, and what constitutes real art. F For Fake is a fine example of a master filmmaker who had at least a couple tricks left up his sleeve. --Ryan Boudinot
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