Word: wellesely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Too bad Welles couldn't have graciously ceded the spotlight to deHory, instead of forcing himself, and his own legerdemain, to center stage. He keeps butting--reciting from Kipling, lumbering through fog in Ireland, gluttoning himself with oysters and steaks. Somehow this went over big in Europe, where F for...
When his own ego is sated, Welles rolls on with self-indulgence to spare, he introduces into F for Fake, for no apparent reason, a young Hungarian protegee named Oja Kodar. Not only a svelte, swarthy beauty, he assures us, but a major new talent: brilliant, sophisticated, articulate. Welles then...
Her behind certainly speaks volumes, but no more than an ad for No Nonsense panty hose. Or maybe Diet Pepsi and "the shape that girl-watchers watch." Forty-five years ago Welles made two films that set a twenty-year peace for cinematic experiment. Now he's cribbing from underwear...
The man remains nothing if not slick, though, and F for Fake still manages to stay one step ahead of the critic. Throughout the film Welles polemicizes against the expert. Who's to judge authenticity? Is there any such thing as true documentary? If not, who's to knock Welles...
Welles crosses the screen, his foot-long cigar perched between his lips, and booms: "Picasso once said 'Truth is a Lie. A lie,'" he adds, 'which helps to understand reality.'" Take that detractors.