F For Fake

Pros: As amusing, inventive, and thoughtful a documentary as you are likely to see.
Cons: As almost all Welles' films, several cuts run 83 or 85 to 95 minutes.

F FOR FAKE (1973-75) is the last complete feature film Orson Welles directed in his lifetime; it is also his most entertaining, obviously personal, dazzling, playful -- one the best and most fully realized films he ever made. It is his summing up, his ...

Pros: Innovative editing and cinematography, entertaining, insightful
Cons: Requires patience, and has to be treated more like an "essay" than a "movie"

At the beginning of F for Fake, Orson Welles is performing magic acts for a little boy at a train station, making a key turn into a coin and vice-versa. In the background, peeping from a train window, is a woman (Oja Kodar) waiting for that boy. ...