Restored ‘F for Fake’ to be shown at Cannes
Restoration of “F for Fake” was undertaken by the Hiventy laboratory and L.E. Diapason Studio from the original elements. The Cannes Film Festival will run July 6-21.
‘Orson Welles in Norwich’ coming to Sky’s ‘Urban Myths’
Britain’s Sky Arts announced this week a fourth season of its popular Urban Myths series for 2020 and one of the four short films will center on Orson Welles. Urban Myths: Orson Welles in Norwich will star BAFTA-winner Robbie Coltrane, OBE as Welles. According to a summary provided by Sky: Welles in 1972 was working on […]
‘Other Side of the Wind’ documentarian Morgan Neville: My North Star was ‘F for Fake’
By RAY KELLY Oscar winning documentarian Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor) is a self-professed Orson Welles fanatic, and the opportunity to explore a misunderstood chapter in the late filmmaker’s life proved hard to resist They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead offers an insightful and highly entertaining look into The […]
Michel Legrand composing, recording ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ score
Michel Legrand, 86, a multiple Oscar and Grammy Award winner.
Literary hoaxster Clifford Irving, subject of ‘F For Fake,’ dead at 87
Irving was a fan of the 1973 Orson Welles movie.
Brazil documentary fest to mark Orson Welles’ 100th
Cinemateca Brasileira will pay tribute to Orson Welles in April as one of many events worldwide marking the centennial of the late filmmaker’s birth. The annual It’s All True Festival, named after Orson Welles’ first documentary, the unfinished It’s All True, runs April 9-19 in São Paulo and April 10-19 in Rio de Janeiro. “Three celebrations […]
Joseph McBride talks ‘Orson Welles 100,’ Film Forum series
Nearly three dozen movies will be shown over a five-week span.
‘F for Fake’ Blu-ray due out in October from Criterion
UPDATED: Orson Welles’ 1975 appearance on NBC’s Tomorrow with Tom Snyder will also be included in the Criterion set. According to the Paley Center, Welles discussed opening night of “The Cradle Will Rock”; why he no longer lives in the United States; his outsider status; why he is hated by some people; his career as […]
Clifford Irving recalls ‘F for Fake’
Irving, 83, recalled his 1969 book Fake! and his involvement in F for Fake.
Henry Jaglom champions ‘F for Fake’ in ‘Best Film You’ve Never Seen’
While much attention has been focused on “My Lunches With Orson,” Peter Biskind’s upcoming book based on taped conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles, Jaglom has more to say about his friend in a new book “The Best Film You’ve Never Seen.” Jaglom is one of 35 film directors interviewed by Chicago Sun-Times editor […]
Orson Welles vs. Ingmar Bergman
While looking through the lavish and quite fabulous new Taschen book, THE INGMAR BERGMAN ARCHIVES, edited by Paul Duncan, I was astonished to see how much of Bergman’s career outside of his movies I was totally unaware of. I daresay that most people in America probably know as little about Bergman’s work on the Swedish […]
The Conundrum over the title for Orson Welles’s final masterpiece, F FOR FAKE
_________________________________ When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, “It’s pretty, […]
Making Movies With ORSON WELLES, a Memoir by Gary Graver – now available
I can hardly be called an unbiased reviewer when it comes to this book, since I contributed an interview with Gary Graver and Oja Kodar that serves as an afterward, but I must say in all candor, I was absolutely delighted when I received a copy of it today. First of all, having talked with […]
Truth and Lies about Orson Welles’ F FOR FAKE
Fake? is a labored and dispiriting jape… No more than a home movie, an indulgent, desperate bit of trick editing; for Welles’s sake I hope that it is quickly forgotten. —Stephen Farber, Film Comment July, 1974 ___________________ F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude… It would have been a more generous gesture […]
Eureka delivers a Splendid DVD of Orson Welles’ F FOR FAKE
Who are the experts? Elmyr de Hory had dramatized the question of whether or not art exists. It has always existed, but today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make—jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man’s creativity, proof […]