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	F for Fake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		F for Fake (1974) (original French title, Vérités et Mensonges) is the last major film completed by Orson Welles.
		Much like Welles's legendary film debut Citizen Kane, F for Fake was a film that faced widespread popular rejection in his home country at the time of release, though it fared better commercially in Europe.
		But again like Kane, F for Fake has grown in stature over the years and is now often considered not only a film classic but a precursor to now-common techniques and a further popularizer of more avant-garde ones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/F_for_Fake (683 words)

	Slant Magazine - DVD Review: F for Fake
		F for Fake is about three hoaxers, Elmyr, the gentlemanly forger and "old emperor of the hoax," Elmyr's biographer Clifford Irving, himself later caught in the act of faking a partnership with Howard Hughes to produce the reclusive multi-millionaire's life story, and Welles himself, the ringmaster.
		F for Fake is as profound a rumination on spectator involvement in the fabrication of a reality, the great trick of the cinema, as it is on the fakers themselves.
		F for Fake stands as an essential film because it is one of the most singularly poignant examinations of the essence of the medium itself, a dream, a document, a lie that is at times capable of becoming more real than reality, host to a wealth of paradoxes and contradictions, much like life.
	www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=617 (1439 words)

	F for Fake fantastic French film of forgery, falsehoods - Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		On the surface, F for Fake is a documentary about Elmyr de Hory, the world's most successful and most notorious art forger - a man who could produce a look alike of a Matisse or a Picasso in about an hour, one of such high caliber that it could fool the most experienced art expert.
		F for Fake rightfully makes no real conclusions, but Welles offers a theory about the importance of art: it may be eroded by the sands of time, or revealed as a fraud or a forgery, but its purpose may lie in the fact that it existed at all.
		F for Fake may stand as one of the most poignant final films of any director's career, one last "trick" played on himself.
	www.thetriangle.org /news/2005/04/22/Entertainment/F.For.Fake.Fantastic.French.Film.Of.Forgery.Falsehoods-934367.shtml (1002 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "F For Fake - The Criterion Collection" DVD Review
		F For Fake plays like a retrospective of Welles’s life and career, all the more so considering that this was the last film he completed.
		F For Fake is presented in the original 1.66:1 aspect ratio.
		F For Fake is one of the best films Welles made, one too often overlooked in his canon.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/f/fforfake_criterion.htm (1039 words)

	F For Fake - Movie Review
		I've never seen another film like F for Fake, and if you invest a quick 90 minutes in it I'll wager you'll come away with the same dazed and breathless feeling that I had.
		F for Fake was, depending on how you look at it, Orson Welles last feature film as a director, and -- as Peter Bogdanovich describes it in an insightful introduction -- it's not quite a documentary but rather a "documentary essay" about trickery and fraud in its various incarnations.
		Structurally F for Fake is complicated, intricate, and fascinating.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/fforfake (406 words)

	DVD review of F For Fake (Criterion) - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		“F for Fake” is a movie about Elmyr de Hory, the world’s second greatest art forger (the best is Oja’s father but that’s a different story.) Elmyr has painted more Modiglianis than Modigliani; he can have three new ones ready for you by lunch if you’re willing to wait.
		With “F for Fake,” Welles intended to create a new type of film which combined elements of both non-fiction and fiction; a personal essay influenced perhaps (though I don’t really know what Welles’ direct influences were) by the work of avant garde documentarians like Chris Marker and Stan Brakhage.
		“F for Fake” is a film which contains such manifold pleasures, it’s at least a minor felony to spoil it by something as venal as a search for meaning.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/fforfakecriterion/15792/2829 (1774 words)

	F for Fake
		"F for Fake" could be called a fictional documentary or a documentary about a couple of talented con men.
		Make no mistake, Welles's last film "F for Fake" isn't a great movie but, like all of Welles's films, it has enough greatest in it to make it worthwhile for fans of film and cinema.
		While it isn't a classic, "F for Fake" has a number of inspired moments and Welles plays with the preconceptions of the audience just enough to keep the film diverting.
	www.mediascreen.com /f/fforfake.htm (991 words)

	The Wire - F For Fake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Because his entire career was entrenched in the fakery and illusion native to movies, it's fitting that Orson Welles' last completed work was F for Fake, a free-form documentary/film essay on the tenuous relationship between what's "real" and what's "fake" and the worthlessness of so-called "experts." It's an elaborate, exuberant piece of work.
		F for Fake initially started as a straight BBC documentary that Welles was asked to narrate.
		The Criterion Collection's two-disc treatment of F for Fake gives viewers the film as well as a string of documentaries that are like the Cliff's Notes for Welles' final work.
	www.wirenh.com /Film/This_Month_in_DVD/F_For_Fake_20050511455.html (748 words)

	Blogcritics.org: F for Fake: Orson Welles' Masterpiece
		I was not like the art dealers examined in F for Fake 'playing whatever game is necessary' to be seen to be relevant to the local academic (or art) scene in their country.
		F for Fake takes Welles into the postmodern I mean in the sense of Welles making a direct contribution to our thinking about postmodernity - not just as another 'thing' to be examined in the light of it.
		F for Fake takes Welles into the heart of postmodern theory in the way similar sort of once dismissed as quaint and a bit not really 'up there' people like RG Collingwood have also found themselves back in the centre of the conversation - making an active contribution.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/03/07/124157.php (2374 words)

	WAG: Orson Welles's F for Fake
		F for Fake, Welles tells us in its opening minutes, is about bigger ideas than simply one forger.
		As a measure of how brilliant Welles’s editing is in F for Fake, compare it to the staid if informative “Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery” included on the Criterion Collection’s top-notch release of F For Fake.
		Footage from some of his unfinished projects is included on the Criterion release of F for Fake, and judging it based on snippets, none of it seems worthy of the director of Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil – or F for Fake, for that matter.
	www.thewag.net /film/f_for_fake.html (946 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on F For Fake at Epinions.com
		At the beginning of F for Fake, Orson Welles is performing magic acts for a little boy at a train station, making a key turn into a coin and vice-versa.
		The final segment of F for Fake concerns the female we are introduced to early in the film: Oja Kodar (Whom would become a close acquaintance of Welles right up to his death).
		F for Fake is the last movie Welles completed and released, although it was not intended as such.
	www.epinions.com /content_190041525892 (1556 words)

	Amazon.com: F for Fake - Criterion Collection: DVD: Oja Kodar,William Alland,Jean-Pierre Aumont,Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		F For Fake is a fine example of a master filmmaker who had at least a couple tricks left up his sleeve.
		F for Fake playfully utilizes every single scene while maximizing the symbolic value of words, images, and behavior among the individuals portrayed in the film.
		F for Fake offers an intriguing cinematic thesis that crawls within the brain causing an itch that does not seem to want to leave.
	www.amazon.com /Fake-Criterion-Collection-Oja-Kodar/dp/B0007M2234 (3122 words)

	The Criterion Collection: F for Fake
		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.
		Charming and inventive, F for Fake is an inspired prank and a searching examination of the essential duplicity of cinema.
		F for Fake is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=288 (348 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - F For Fake: Criterion Collection
		F for Fake is director Orson Welles's examination of trickery—not in the magic sense, but in the sense of Putting One Over.
		You might not agree with the legions of critics who suggest year after year that Citizen Kane is the "greatest film of all time"—that's pretty much a question of personal taste—but you can't argue the influence it had on (most specifically) American film.
		F for Fake has been given a second life thanks to Criterion, available to be seen and appreciated by a whole new generation of film lovers and enthusiasts.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/fforfake.php (1462 words)

	DVD Savant Review: F for Fake
		F for Fake is a bogus documentary on con-men and high-stakes fraud, supposedly about art forger Elmyr de Hory and literary faker Clifford Irving (he's the one who came up with a fraudulent Howard Hughes memoir).
		In F for Fake, Welles caps his wild stack of arguments with a topper about the cathedral of Chartres, a cultural wonder designed and built by artists unknown.
		F for Fake is a wickedly rich puzzle and a great source of discussion sure to start arguments among the nicest film fans.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1582fake.html (1053 words)

	www.myspace.com/f4fake
		Named after an Orson Welles movie, F For Fake is the brainchild of songwriter Charlie Roadman — former lead guitarist for the late, great San Antonio rock band Evergreen.
		With his song “Greyhound Bus,” Charlie Roadman -leader of the Austin/San Antonio ensemble F For Fake — proves that his command of logic is every bit as sure as his serpentine songcraft.
		With help from Buttercup’s rhythm section and a large cast of expert players, F For Fake features pedal-steel, accordion, and banjo bumping up against each other in an artsy mix that’s always smart but never coldly cerebral.
	www.myspace.com /f4fake (584 words)

	F for Fake - Movie Review - Stylus Magazine
		Far more difficult than enjoying F for Fake is the legitimate dilemma of attempting to enumerate its virtues and map out its “plot” in writing.
		Suffice it to say, then, that F for Fake is a meditation on illusion, fakery, and lying, in all of its various forms (including film itself), “starring” Welles, his companion and associate Oja Kodar, art forger Elmyr de Hory, (pseudo-)biographer Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes, and Pablo Picasso.
		The addition of F for Fake to The Criterion Collection is a major step toward a better understanding of one of the most accomplished artists of the past century.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=1650 (1009 words)

	F For Fake - DVD Movie Central
		F For Fake is not a documentary in the traditional sense, but more of what Peter Bogdanovich calls a "documentary essay".
		Irving is interested in the idea of passing off fakes as the real thing, and as it turns out, his curiosity was more than academic.
		F For Fake is unlike any movie I've ever seen, and it may be, as Welles himself put it, "a new kind of movie" he left us with to cap off his unique career.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/f_for_fake.htm (1378 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - F For Fake (Criterion Collection) (1973)
		The final directorial project the legendary Orson Welles completed during his lifetime, F for Fake is less a documentary than an example of cinematic free association on the topic of trickery.
		Much of the film is in fact drawn from other sources, most notably an unfinished documentary by Francois Reichenbach on the notorious Elmyr de Hory, whose extremely skillful forgeries of famous paintings caused scandals amongst art collectors and experts.
		F for Fake is inconsistent almost by its very nature, and certainly not comparable to Welles' earlier classics, but its free-wheeling, prankster spirit makes for an enjoyable curiosity.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=115194 (686 words)

	Home Theater & Sound -- F for Fake - ***1/2
		F for Fake, therefore, seems like a logical creative choice for a genius whose professional life depended on the ability to deceive.
		As with F for Fake, the video image is as good as the source material allows.
		F for Fake is not linear in form but nonetheless follows a number of threads from beginning to end.
	www.hometheatersound.com /dvd/f_for_fake.htm (531 words)

	Vérités et mensonges (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		There are many ideas to be gleaned from F for Fake, but one of the most important, and certainly one intended by Welles, is that perhaps we're a bit too harsh when it comes to the conventional wisdom on frauds and fakery.
		But even if you were to watch F for Fake without cognizing the ideational content, it would still be a fascinating and rewarding experience.
		While F for Fake isn't exactly "light viewing", and anyone not acclimated to documentaries might have difficulty appreciating it, it is a masterpiece that any cineaste should be familiar with.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0072962 (861 words)

	Ed Driscoll.com: Orson Welles' Last Movie Arrives On DVD
		When Orson Welles completed F For Fake in 1976, he never intended it to become the last film of his to play in movie theaters during in his lifetime.
		F For Fake is still one of the most daringly edited movies of its time.
		Now, however, F For Fake stands as Welles' last masterpiece, a playful movie essay on the questions that post-modernists were just then beginning to ask.
	eddriscoll.com /archives/007025.php (1410 words)

	Wellesnet: F for Fake Video Comparisons
		I have measured the length and width of all three F for Fakes during playback, and the only thing I can tell you is that the Japanese disc is closer to Widescreen than the Brazillian disc and the Criterion LD, which are barely Widescreen at all (the ARs for those two are nearly identical).
		2) The Criterion F for Fake [85min] - I sincerely hope that Criterion (which is owned by Home Vision Entertainment, the same company that has the VHS version of the movie in their catalog) releases the film on DVD, because there are a few things that make the laserdisc special.
		SECOND, the LD contains the 9-minute F for Fake trailer, which can be considered a Welles film in itself, not just because it uses footage not found in the actual feature, but because it was created by Welles (and Mr.
	www.wellesnet.com /fake_video_comp2.htm (889 words)

	CNN.com - Where the truth lies - Apr 21, 2005
		In the early '70s, he decided to make a film about the fine line between truth and lies, "F for Fake." The movie, which was released in 1976, gets a gorgeous Criterion Collection DVD release Tuesday.
		In "F for Fake," Welles found himself with some terrific subjects -- a professional art forger, the writer Clifford Irving, and himself -- and created what Peter Bogdanovich calls a "documentary essay" on the subject of truth and lies.
		Originally a commentator on the art forger, Irving turned out -- unbeknownst to Welles when he started making "F for Fake" -- to be engaging in one of the most celebrated hoaxes of the 20th century, in which he claimed to be Howard Hughes' autobiographer.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/04/20/eye.ent.fake/index.html (1115 words)

	F for Fake
		But, after the remarkably moving, powerful and ingenious Kane, F for Fake is pretty much the greatest thing Welles ever made.
		During one of the most charming sequences in F for Fake, he briefly relates his own history as a charlatan, starting with his famous radio broadcast "War of the Worlds," that convinced many a simpleton New York was being invaded by Martians.
		He had some hope that F for Fake or his never-completed South American trilogy would resurrect his career, but there's a melancholy that hangs over the entire proceeding.
	www.laserblazer.com /FforFake.html (1410 words)

	filmjourney.org : F for Fake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The title of Orson Welles' playful and raffish essay film, F for Fake (1976)--released this week on DVD by the Criterion Collection--suggests one possible word following the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and indeed, the film's focus on the story of art forger Elmyr de Hory justifies it.
		But the film could also have been called "F for Fame," as one of the film's preoccupations is the way notoriety and personality can overwhelm art, imposing notions of "authenticity" and "fakery," "expertise" and "value," in ways that are less certain than one might assume.
		Cutting quickly from interviews to reaction shots culled from other interviews, snippets of dialogue, footage of Welles in his editing suite speaking to the camera and continuing his narration from various locations around the world, F for Fake is an almost impossibly lively pastiche of images and ideas that never tires.
	filmjourney.weblogger.com /2005/04/30 (551 words)

	F For Fake - Movie Info - Moviefone
		Synopsis: The final directorial project the legendary Orson Welles completed during his lifetime, F for Fake is less a documentary than an example of cinematic...
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