‘F for Fake’ Blu-ray due out in October from Criterion

July 16, 2014
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F for FakeUPDATED: Orson Welles’ 1975 appearance on NBC’s Tomorrow with Tom Snyder will also be included in the Criterion set. According to the Paley Center, Welles discussed opening night of “The Cradle Will Rock”; why he no longer lives in the United States; his outsider status; why he is hated by some people; his career as a film director and actor; the radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds”; his experiences on radio; why he demanded so much control over his movies; his lack of great wealth; his personal religious philosophy; his views on the future of humanity; his ideas about life after death; his relationship with Houdini; his childhood; his regrets; and what he does for fun.
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The Criterion Collection will release F for Fake on Blu-ray on October 21.

It will carry a suggested list price of $39.95 and contain features familiar to those who own the standard DVD set.

The Blu-ray features include:

  • New, restored digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • Audio commentary from 2005 by cowriter and star Oja Kodar and director of photography Gary Graver
  • Introduction from 2005 by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich

  • Orson Welles: One-Man Band, a documentary from 1995 about Welles’s unfinished projects
  • Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery, a 52-minute documentary from 1997 about art forger Elmyr de Hory
  • 60 Minutes interview from 2000 with Clifford Irving about his Howard Hughes autobiography hoax
  • Hughes’s 1972 press conference exposing Irving’s hoax
  • Extended, nine-minute trailer
  • An essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum

    • Criterion will also be releasing, for the first time, John Ford’s My Darling Clementine. It boasts a new 4K digital restoration of the theatrical release version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. The extras include a new audio commentary by John Ford biographer (and Welles scholar) Joseph McBride.

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