Thursday, December 10
Thu Dec 10 at 7:00pm! IFC is bringing James Toback — the controversial writer-director whose films range from 1978’s Fingers to 2009’s Tyson – to the IFC Center for a special “Movie Night” on Thursday, December 10 at 7:00pm. Toback will be presenting one of his favorite films, Orson Welles’ late masterwork F FOR FAKE (1973), followed by a discussion with filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev (Fighter), whose recent documentary My Kid Can Paint That also tackled issues of deception and fakery in the art world.
Trickery, deceit and magic abound in Welles’s free-form documentary F FOR FAKE, with the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engaging the central preoccupation of his career-the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles embarks on a dizzying cinematic journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes-not the least of whom is Welles himself. Charming and inventive, F FOR FAKE is an inspired prank and a searching examination of the essential duplicity of cinema.
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