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F for Fake 1973
I'd argue that this is Welles' best film. Ostensibly about an art forger and his biographer, also a faker, the film also includes tales from Welles' own life and the story of a model who Picasso painted numerous paintings of. It's an ode to fakers, mainly filmmakers. It revels in the glorious, inherent lie that exists within every movie and how they are made. It's also pretty damn entertaining, keeping it's intentions close to the chest through a masterclass of…
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The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is a bloated, some could say excessive, and intermittently entertaining ode to extravagance. I normally love when Scorsese lets it all fly stylistically, After Hours and New York, New York are my favorites of his, but here the excess is used to cover up how familiar the story is and how unlikable the characters are. Storywise it's pretty much Goodfellas set on Wall Street instead of in the mafia. The film is often repetitive…
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