F for Fake (1973)
Directed by Orson Welles
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
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Here the editing is smooth and cleverly intercuts different scenes and dialogue for a nice effect (it reminded me a little of Orson Welles' F for Fake ).
Like " F for Fake ," the delightful meditation on art and deception by Orson Welles , "The Illusionist" places the very film you're watching at the center of the illusion.
Cinema to Orson Welles was an art found between magic and trickery; Burger's sumptuously hollow arabesque cannot approach the coruscating gags of Welles' F for Fake, but it expands the filmmaker's obsession with vision, interpretation and deception, flaunted in Interview with the Assassin.
The two allegedly had a plan to keep the budget under control, even though Dalí would have been paid by minute of screen time and Orson Welles—set to play the blimp-like Baron Harkonnen—only signed on to the project when Jodorowsky agreed to have the F For Fake auteur’s favorite chef cater the shoot.