Orson Welles: One-Man Band
F for Fake
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1h 27m
Orson Welles completed eleven feature films as a director and left behind countless fragments of his work in front of and behind the camera. He gave these bits and pieces to his companion, Oja Kodar, who joined with filmmakers Vassili Silovic and Roland Zag to create this remarkable 1995 film, modeled explicitly on F FOR FAKE’s “essay film” style.
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