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| | Self-referential movies: F For Fake |
 | | There's some telephoto footage of Howard Hughes's Las Vegas headquarters; Welles apparently wants us to think that he went there in person, for, in an effect worthy of Plan 9 From Outer Space, he intercuts a shot of himself peering out from behind some shrubbery in a clearly Mediterranean location. |
 | | Quite often we see an image small and flickering on a Movieola screen, then big and actual, filling our own frame--lest we forget that we're watching pieces of film being manipulated by the master editor himself, Orson Welles, who also shows up on the Movieola screen, a piece of film himself. |
 | | He examines footage on a movieola, looks up from a newspaper, displays pieces of "evidence," poses ominous rhetorical questions, drops portentious hints, and leads us backwards and forwards in time by using an ironic, aware-of-the-future tense that there may not even be a name for in English. |
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