+ 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.