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- Summary
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Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career - the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
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- Creator
- Les Films de L'Astrophore
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2005]
- ©2005
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide; in container
- ISBNs
- 9780780030022, 0780030028
- OCLC
- ocm60576088
- Credits
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- Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Edith Irving, Laurence Harvey, other featured performers
- Director of photography, Gary Graver ; written by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar; Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
- Originally produced as motion picture in 1972.
- Special features: "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; a new essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.
- DVD.