F for Fake

By Joey 2022-11-20 09:12:23

fake

"Ladies and gentlemen," the show begins. A deep voice transports the audience into a magic show. The magic is not wonderful, not a plane, a cannon, a beautiful woman, but a key and a coin. This seems to be a trick that the warlock can only deceive children.

The "warlock" is called Orson Welles. At this moment, he was on the train platform, deceiving the children seriously. Keys and coins were swiping away in his hands, coming at a moment's notice, in his palm for a while, and in the...

By Kristy 2022-10-18 18:40:22

false when true

This is a documentary, but not just a documentary. This was the last film director Orson completed. The whole film is guided by a magician in black (Orson himself), mixed with elements of drama and even magic drama, and the editing is very colorful and interesting.
The main line of the story is Elmyr de Hory, a famous twentieth-century forgery master, Hungarian painter. Elmyr is also a legend. While studying painting in Paris, he worked hard to create but was silently frustrated. Although...

By Lukas 2022-10-11 20:22:35

fake

Tired of his life on the run, Hungarian forgery painter Elmyr de Hory returned to the Spanish island of Ibiza in 1969, becoming a celebrity on the island and befriending American author Clifford Irving ). Director Orson Welles introduced Emile DeHorry and interspersed with the once sensational case of Clifford Irwin who faked the autobiography of American aviation tycoon Howard Hughes, and then made up his girlfriend Olga • A strange affair between Oja Kodar and Picasso. Interspersed between...

By Jimmie 2022-10-06 14:20:48

Excerpt from Fan Jingzhong's beautiful translation of the last paragraph of the film from "Chinese Bamboo Rhythm"

And authentic connoisseurs probably won’t overlook Wells’ philosophy of counterfeiting, which Wells told Picasso through the mouth of Emile in the final scene of F for Fake, especially when the protagonist of Chartres Cathedral appears on the screen. The words he said were unbearable, and they were directly connected with the vitality of heaven and earth:
  [It has been standing here for centuries. It is also the highest work of mankind in the whole of the West, and it is unsigned. It is a...

By Shanie 2022-09-17 21:30:50

Turn Roger Ebert

| R o ger Ebert O c tober 13, 1977

Orson Welles can make better movies than most directors with one hand tied behind his back. His problem, of course, is that for 35 years the hand has remained tied. His career is a study in lost possibilities: Having made a legendary film debut at the age of 24 with "

By Haylee 2023-09-27 21:09:55

L'art est un mensonge, Welles' last masterpiece, montage is too époustouflant! !...

By Kendall 2023-09-03 20:02:00

Decoupage in Oja's part is really amazing, the best two in Orsen wells's...

By Lorine 2023-09-02 11:16:30

How awesome, Pablo Picasso, Orson Welles, and the artist who faked the...

By Thurman 2023-08-29 06:03:29

Is the fake a documentary, how is it...

By Marcus 2023-08-26 12:05:22

This movie is so interesting, I have to watch it again. reality is but a fake...