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DVD000950

F For Fake

Welles, Orson

Criterion Collection

Description:

DVD - Region 1.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
color.   widescreen.   sound - monaural.  

Notes:

Supplemental material includes: audio commentary by star and co-writer Oja Kodar and director of photography Gary Graver; introduction by Peter Bogdanovich; extended 9 min. trailer; 60 Minutes interview with Clifford Irving, from 2000, about his Howard Hughes autobiography hoax; 1972 Hughes press conference, exposing Irving’s hoax; essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Titles

+ Orson Welles: One-Man Band

Director:

Silovic, Vassili

Running Time:

Feature.   88 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color and b/w

Year:

1995

Language:

English

Genre:

Documentary

+ Almost True: The Noble Art Of Forgery

Running Time:

Short.   52 minutes

Year:

1997

Genre:

Documentary

+ F For Fake

Director:

Welles, Orson

Production Co:

Films de l’Astrophore; SACI (Teheran); Janus Film und Fernsehen (Frankfurt)

Running Time:

Feature.   88 minutes

Sound:

sound - monaural

Color:

color

Country:

France, Iran, Germany [West]

Year:

1972

Language:

English. Closed-captioned.
Closed Captioned

Genre:

Documentary

Notes:

Two discs. A free-form documentary that gleefully engages the central preoccupation of Welles’s career - the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Supplemental material includes: audio commentary by star and co-writer Oja Kodar and director of photography Gary Graver; introduction by Peter Bogdanovich; extended 9 min. trailer; ORSON WELLES: ONE-MAN BAND (Vassili Silovic, 1995, 88 min.); ALMOST TRUE: THE NOBLE ART OF FORGERY (1997, 52 min.); 60 Minutes interview with Clifford Irving, from 2000, about his Howard Hughes autobiography hoax; 1972 Hughes press conference, exposing Irving’s hoax; essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.