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Richard Wilson | ... |
Himself - Special Participant
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Richard Drewitt | ... |
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Orson Welles' free-form documentary about fakery focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr's biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles' own career (which started with a faked resume and a phony Martian invasion). On the way, Welles plays a few tricks of his own on the audience. Written by Anonymous
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Hidden within a montage of footage of Howard Hughes is one brief shot of a man disembarking from a ship who looks similar to Hughes, but is actually the actor Don Ameche. See more »Goofs
The word "practitioners" is misspelled "practioners" in the opening credits. See more »Quotes
Orson Welles: [quoting a phenomenal art forger] Do you think I should confess? To what? Committing masterpieces?See more »
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F FOR FAKE is arguably Orson Welles's greatest film work. Just as CITIZEN KANE was exemplary of Baroque art, F FOR FAKE is the celluloid version of a Picasso painting.
And in the Modern world where truth is relative, and art is subjective, Welles forces us to ask -- "When the authority says fake is real, what is real and what is fake?"
This film works on many, many levels. Pure, unadulterated genius.