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Orson Welles's F for fake [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: FAK020 | Criterion collectionLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 288. | Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)Publication details: [United States] : Criterion collection , [2005].Edition: Special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (approximately 237 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0780030028
  • 9780780030022
Other title:
  • F for fake
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.9/5 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.P7 O77 2005
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Gary Graver.
Summary: Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 0691 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050095973

Title from container.

Originally released in 1976.

Run time: approx. 88 min.

Special features: Disc 1: the film : audio commentary by Ojar Kodar and Gary Graver; introduction by Peter Bogdanovich; extended 9-minute trailer; Disc 2: the supplements: Orson Welles: One-man band (1995), an 88 minute documentary about Welles's unfinished projects; Almost true: The noble art of forgery (1997), a 52-minute documentary about art forger Elmyr de Hory; a 60 Minutes interview with Clifford Irving, from 2000, about his Howard Hughes autobiography hoax; a 1972 Hughes press conference exposing Irving's hoax; plus: a new essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

Closed-captioned.

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