F for Fake - Criterion Collection
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Movie Reviews of F for Fake - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: One of Orson's great final film creations - a miracle of editing
Summary: 5 Stars
Life is short and everyone knows that Orson Welles was a genius - flawed or otherwise - so let me say that F FOR FAKE is a great and very wise film about . . . film. It's a Mobius strip - it keeps turning back on itself so that its primary subject takes turns with secondary and tertiary characters and ultimately mirrors the film's own creator. It's a film about how the truth of art is often conveyed through lies, and vice versa.
Let me also say that the overheated editing from a variety of disparate elements and different film stocks preceded Oliver Stone's own brain-fever techniques in films like JFK, NATURAL BORN KILLERS, and NIXON by nearly twenty years. Just imagine what Welles would have produced if the circumstances of his project financing had not been so dire.
As ever, Criterion has produced a marvelous version of this "only" color film from Orson Welles (another reason to see this movie - every other Welles film was in black and white).
Buy this DVD, along with Criterion's recent release of MR. ARKADIN (complete with the original novel on which Welles based the film). Great stuff . . .
Movie Review: Classic Welles, A Real Gem...
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is perhaps my absolute favorite by Orson Welles as he co starred and edited this rather complex movie/documentary on forgers and the craft of forging. Set in far flung 70's hot spots such as Ibiza, Las Vegas, and Nassau, this film is carefully edited in such a way as to provide a fast paced, entertaining look into the seamy underside of the art and publishing worlds in the late 60's and early 70's. Welles even had the stones to include his mistress Oja Kodar as his co-star in his own piece of trickery as displayed in this fast paced masterpiece. This is a great film for anyone who watched Richard Gere in "The Hoax" and who would desire to know the real story of Clifford Irving. A great film by a master of the art!Movie Review: I'm not an expert, but this movie sucks
Summary: 1 Stars
Seriously, I am an expert, and this movie sucks. But, imagine for a moment--yes, stop and withdraw from your metaphysical prejudices--a movie whose premise is truly profound, strikingly engaging, and culturally challenging--that art is only such relative to those individuals, those `experts', whose tastes, likes and dislikes, decide it so. Given that aesthetic claims are empirically nonsensical--a matter of pure subjective opinion--why is it that some art is valued at all while some not at all? Besides this interesting question, which is put forth explicitly, without the pretentious riddles of terrible poetry, and in about 60 seconds, the rest of the movie is obnoxious editing and narration. Avoid at all costs. Movie Review: watching this must have been karmic penance for badly boring someone in a past life
Summary: 1 Stars
Whether lounging in a field of mustard flowers, waxing drunk in an affected "traveler's accent" on the, ahem, realness of reality, or mumbling about Chartres Cathedral and the fallibility of man, "who must, in the end, die," Orson Welles slurs his way through this pathetic attempt to embody his "Grand Old Boy" superego like that drunken brother in law, tolerated, but only for your sister's sake. Every five minutes I expected apneatic snoring to interrupt his incessant, rambling narration. I can only conclude that these disturbances were removed in post-production. Too bad -- like drunk uncle Zane passing out in the middle of explaining the whole, damn 9-11 conspiracy, these somnolent interruptions would have provided a blessed intermission during which to run to the other side of the house and hope to god he sleeps it off. Movie Review: FULL OF LOT OF UNSEEN PRECIOUS FOOTAGE
Summary: 5 Stars
but the problem with orson welles is that he tried to be so many things, so many characters, so many roles, as actor, performer, producer, director, camera man, magician, lover, screeplay writer, editor, set director...all the possible key person in the movie industry. he lit so many fires but could never put out them in time or on time. he's too ambitious, a gluttonous, greedy movie guy who wanted it all. that's why he failed in the end. he had tried to play a god role, a puppet master, with too many puppets linked and tied to his 10 fingers, entangled them with with dead knolts and could never untie them. his early success of 'citizen kane' also became his swan song. what a tragic person. a man tried so hard to own so many faces, yet people could only remember his out of shape fatness. did he ever realize that people might have gotten tired of his presence almost in every scene? a man with fatal narcissus complex, loved and obsessed with himself only. a very sad story, a biography with a fatal character, a life long struggle and broken dreams. a contractor who could only build shells, a developer who could only throw out so many projects to the public but could never deliver and made them come true. a traffic policeman, standing in the center of a threshhold, trying to direct all the traffic from all the directions but only made a mess.