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F for fake
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Hory, Elmyr de.
- Irving, Clifford.
- Magic.
- Documentary films.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Documentary films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 75 minutes) digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2014
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- 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 embarks on a dizzying cinematic journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes, not the least of whom is Welles himself. Charming and inventive, F for fake is an inspired prank and a searching examination of the essential duplicity of cinema
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Originally produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films in 1987
- OCLC:
- 1294533547
- Publisher Number:
- 1113001 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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