F for Fake Criterion Blu-ray Due 10/21/14

[Jeff Wilson]

Extras appear to be the same as the DVD.

[Wellesnet]

Thanks Jeff.

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=245084

[Roger Ryan]

Extras appear to be the same as the DVD.

Criterion has just added the entire Tom Snyder "Tomorrow" interview with Welles as a bonus feature for the Blu-ray, so that's another incentive to upgrade.

[Le Chiffre]

Great news, Roger, thanks. That's a very good interview, long unseen. I saw it years ago at a Museum of Broadcasting archive, but that archive is no longer available. It'll make a terrific extra.

[Wellesnet]

Bluray.com reviews the new "F For Fake" DVD. Sounds like it's the one to have:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/F-for-Fak ... 07/#Review

DVD Beaver:
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film4/blu-ray_ ... lu-ray.htm

Documentary.org review:
http://www.documentary.org/magazine/Ors ... ay-Release

Oja Kodar (from the Blurry commentary:

F For Fake is a film about art and art forgery, The question of “What is Art” is probably the most difficult question ever put forth to any human. I never discussed this with Orson, and I should have because he probably would have given me the answer. I didn’t ask because I thought I was bright enough that I would see it through the film. I know that “art” is what Orson did, but to try and pinpoint it down and say, “this film is art because of this and that”, it’s very very hard. But what I feel, if I may call myself an artist; what I myself intimately feel about art, is that art is freedom. I think if somebody literally, physically puts me in prison, and if they give me a piece of clay, or a piece of paper with a pen, I will be free.

It comes back to the same question: what is the art and what is the fake, and why should something that we call “art” be the truth? Isn’t fake also some kind of a truth? A lie is not the truth, but a fake is something else. A fake is not a lie. A fake is a product of the imagination, and art is a product of the imagination, so I don’t make a big distinction between what we call a true artist and the faker. I think that they are brothers.