CineGrand Film: F For Fake- Closed-Captioned Wednesday Matinee

  • Date: May 24, 2017
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  • Location: The Grand, Ellsworth

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The Grand’s Weekly CineGrand series– a series of the best of the recent films, from both the Hollywood studios and independents, all playing Tuesday at 7:30 pm and Wednesdays at 3:30 pm at The Grand in Ellsworth- continues its new Summer season on Tuesday, May 23 and a special closed-captioned screening on Wednesday May 24 with the last completed film by Orson Welles, “F for Fake.” The director appears as himself in this witty and subversive film essay on fakery and forgery, art and illusion, the last full-length film he ever made. Taking footage from an earlier Francois Reichenbach documentary on art forgery- based on a book by the literary hoaxer Clifford Irving- Welles worked his own clips into it, re-editing the original footage extensively. In the film, he tells of the success of his own fakeries, from the lies which got him into Ireland's Abby Theater, to his famous radio hoax about an invasion of Martians, and his subsequent career as an actor and film director. All of these memories are interspersed in a sort of documentary within a documentary about a woman who conned Picasso out of almost two-dozen paintings, the art forger Elmyr de Hory and musings over the life of Howard Hughes and the man who forged an "autobiography" of Hughes, Clifford Irving. (1973. USA 1 hr, 25min. Directed by Orson Welles. PG-13.) For more information on this or other Grand events, please call the box office at 207-667-9500 or visit The Grand website at www.grandonline.org or follow The Grand on Facebook.

 

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