At the end of the 1950s, celebrated French documentarian Franois Reichenbach (F for Fake, Portrait: Orson Welles), whose lens captured the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Johnny Hallyday, spent eighteen months travelling the United States, documenting its diverse regions, their inhabitants and their pastimes. The result, America As Seen by a Frenchman, is a wide-eyed – perhaps ev...
Abdulaye Faye,23 ,is a young black man from Senegal.While working in a factory ,he is training for a boxing match. He is an endearing guy, a bit naive,but,as the title reads ,he's really bighearted . We follow him through the streets of Paris . He meets a Japanese girl and they go boating but their relationship comes to a sudden end:she's married . Abdulaye is a true believer,h...
Rock'n roll and how it started changing everything.
This remarkable film was made in 1954, and is far more sexually explicit than ' Last Spring '. It is made in colour and there is no sound coming out of the mouths of the youths and men Reichenbach has silently filmed. I find this poignant as all those romantic or fun words are lost and the impact of this is of a world lost to us but recalled by images. And the images blaze at u...
厌倦了逃亡生涯的匈牙利赝品画家艾米尔德霍瑞（Elmyr de Hory）于1969年回到西班牙伊维萨岛，成为岛上名人，并结识了美国作家克利福德艾尔文（Clifford Irving）。导演奥逊威尔斯在介绍艾米尔德霍瑞的同时穿插讲述了曾轰动一时的克利福德艾尔文造假美国飞行业大亨霍华德休斯自传案，随后又杜撰了女友欧嘉蔻达（Oja Kodar）与毕加索之间的一段奇事。真假穿插中，奥逊威尔斯提出了“艺术是什么”与作品归属权的问题。
本片是美国导演奥逊威尔斯的最后一部完整的电影作品，大部分镜头素材来自由艾尔文克利福德编剧，法国导演弗朗索瓦莱兴巴赫（Francois Reichenbach）导演的关于匈牙利赝品画家艾米尔德霍瑞的BBC纪录片。
