Orson Welles's F for fake

F for fake (Motion picture)

Special edition

2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] pages ; color illustrations ; 19 cm)
4 3/4 in
digital optical mono Dolby Digital
videodisc
NTSC
video file DVD video all regions

CHVR: NR

F for fake
Title from opening frames: About fakes

Title from container
Originally released as a documentary film in 1972
Special features: Disc 1. Audio commentary by Oja Kodar and Gary Graver; introduction by Peter Bogdanovich; extended 9-minute trailer; Disc 2. 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
Original music, Michel Legrand ; editing, Marie-Sophie Dubus with Dominique Engerer ; photography (France and Ibiza), Christian Odasso ; photography (U.S.A. and Toussaint), Gary Graver
Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Edith Irving, François Reichenbach, Laurence Harvey, Gary Graver
DVD, region 1, enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs, Dolby Digital mono., dual layer
Closed-captioned with English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Disc 1: The film: audio commentary by star and co-writer Oja Kodar and director of photography Gary Graver; introduction by director 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

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Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022, voice actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Dubus, Marie-Sophie, editor of moving image work
Engerer, Dominique, editor of moving image work
Films de l'Astrophore, production company
Films du Prisme (Firm), presenter, production company
Graver, Gary, director of photography, on-screen participant
Harvey, Laurence, on-screen participant
Hory, Elmyr de, on-screen participant
Irving, Clifford, on-screen participant
Irving, Edith, on-screen participant
Janus Films, production company
Kodar, Oja, on-screen participant, screenwriter
Legrand, Michel, 1932-2019, composer (expression)
Odasso, Christian, director of photography, on-screen participant
Reichenbach, François, 1921-1993, presenter, executive producer, on-screen participant
Welles, Orson, 1915-1985, performer, film director, screenwriter