F for Fake [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"Orson Welles appears as himself in this witty and subversive film essay on fakery and forgery, art and illusion. Welles first appears in a European rail station, performing some sleight of hand for a sparse collection of onlookers. He then edits himself into -- and comments upon -- an unfinished documentary (in footage originally shot by Francois Reichenbach) about art forger Elmyr de Hory. In this documentary within a documentary, the gentleman conducting the interviews with de Hory happe...