Description:
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles's free-form documentary F for Fake, 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 inventive, F for Fake is an inspired examination of the essential duplicity of cinema.
Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Video interview by director Peter Bogdonavich
- Audio commentary featuring director of photography Gary Graver
- Orson Welles: One-Man Band (1988), an hour-long investigation of Welles’s unfinished projects
- Almost True, a 1992 Norwegian Film Institute documentary on art forger Elmyr de Hory
- 10-minute trailer
- New essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired