Obituary after obituary tutted about what a shame it was that he never lived up to the promise of Citizen Kane. His last completed film, The Other Side of the Wind , is scheduled to debut on Netflix later this year, thirty years after it finished filming. When people actually get a chance to see late Welles, they generally enjoy it. F for Fake was reissued in America by Criterion in , and that package turned its reputation around from curio to cult classic. Now an expanded version of that disc is available on Region 2.
De Hory was perhaps the least covert criminal to exist outside of DC Comics, holding high society parties at his Ibiza villa, bragging about how many art galleries are filled with his work, dashing off a quick Modigliani or a Matisse in fifteen minutes before tossing it on the fire.
For whatever reason, though, Reichenbach found it impossible to complete the film, and turned the footage over to Welles to see if he could make something out of it.
Boy, could he. How did they know it was Hughes and not another impostor? Reviewing F for Fake in , with its bristling contempt for expertise and celebration of hoaxers and con-artists, there is a temptation to recruit it into contemporary debates about fake news and political manipulation.
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Likewise, if de Hory can draw something that looks like a Picasso, and is as good as a Picasso, does it really matter if Picasso never did it? Well, perhaps. But Citizen Kane is not a con. One can criticise Picasso by saying de Hory is just as good, if not better, at painting — but we must then acknowledge that without Picasso, de Hory would have nothing to paint.
