Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
310.443.7000
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F for Fake
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Tuesday Jan 22, 2008 (7pm)
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F for Fake is Orson Welles' farewell to filmmaking, as well as a crafty reminder of the art form's slippery relationship with artifice. The "documentary" on infamous art forger Elmyr de Hory delights in toeing the truth/fiction line. It includes supposedly found footage from an unfinished film on the dishonest de Hory, notorious hoaxster Clifford Irving as an interviewer, and allusions to the director's own work dealing in deception (The War of the Worlds broadcast, for example). Viewers should know to take everything in Welles' self-aware and mischievous swan song with a grain of salt — if not a whole shaker of it.
