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F for Fake
Whenever discussing Orson Welles’ final masterpiece, F for Fake, I’m reminded of Rembrandt, his great painting “The Polish Rider,” and one of his contemporaries, the lesser-known Willem Drost. “The Polish Rider” is fascinating late work from Rembrandt and has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Aviator, Bust of a Man wearing a Large-Brimmed Beret, Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane, Clifford Irvin, Elmyr de Hory, F for Fake, François Reichenbach, Georges Méliès, Gerbrandt ver den Eeckhout, Giorgione, Gregory Arkadin, Hank Quinlan, Herman Mankiewicz, Howard Hughes, Illusions Fantasmagoriques, Joseph Cotton, Le Magicien, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matisse, Modigliani, Oja Kodar, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael, Pierre Crozat, Polish Rider, Portrait of a Young Woman with her Hands Folded on a Book, Prophetess Anna Instructing a Child, Raising Kane, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Renoir, Richard Wilson, War of the Worlds, Willem Drost, Xanadu
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