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DVD006337

F for Fake

Welles, Orson

The Criterion Collection, 2014

Description:

BluRay - Zone A.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
color.   1.66:1.   sound - monaural.  

Notes:

Supplemental materials include: audio commentary by Oja Kodar and Gary Graver; 2005 intro by Peter Bogdanovich; 2000 interview with Clifford Irving from tv episode 60 Minutes; audio recording of Howard Hughes 1972 press conference; extended trailer; essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Titles

+ Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

Alternate Title:

Orson Welle - l’homme orchestre

Director:

Silovic, Vasilli

Production Co:

Bayerischer Rundfunk

Running Time:

Feature.   88 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color

Country:

Germany, France, Switzerland

Year:

1995

Language:

English and German

Genre:

Documentary

Notes:

Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner Of Orson Welles in his last years). She discovers with the viewer many of the projects that Orson never completed or short movies that he never released : The Magic Show, Swinging London (and its segment the one man band that gives its title to the documentary), Vienna, The Merchant of Venice, Moby Dick, The Deep, The other Side of the Wind, The Dreamers. Oja returns to Orson's abandoned house in Orvilliers (France) where she discovers more of his writings during the preparation of the Moby Dick project. Despite the destruction of squatters, Orson's work still remains after all these years.

+ F for Fake

Alternate Title:

Vérités et Mensonges

Director:

Welles, Orson

Production Co:

Les Films de L’Astrophore

Running Time:

Feature.   88 minutes

Sound:

sound - monaural

Color:

color

Country:

France

Year:

1975

Language:

English

Genre:

Essay

Notes:

Director Welles gleefully reengages with the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous lines between illusion and truth, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of the world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes - including himself. Supplemental materials include: audio commentary by Oja Kodar and Gary Graver; 2005 intro by Peter Bogdanovich; talk show episode TOMORROW (1975) with Welles’ interview; documentary ORSON WELLES: ONE-MAN BAND (Vasilli Silovic, 1995, 88 minutes) ALMOST TRUE:THE NOBLE ART OF FORGERY (1995, 55 minutes); 2000 interview with Clifford Irving from tv episode 60 Minutes; audio recording of Howard Hughes 1972 press conference; extended trailer; essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

Director:

Jorfald, W. Knut

Production Co:

Filmlance International AB; Kinoproduction; Norsk Film

Running Time:

Short.   55 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color

Country:

Norway

Year:

1995

Language:

English language

Genre:

Documentary

Notes:

Film about art forger Elmyr de Hory. He was also one of the subjects of Orson Welles’ documentary F for Fake (1974). A Norwegian production directed by Knut W. Jorfald, spoken in English.

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