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F for Fake
Why this pick
Welles turns questions of authorship, performance and truth into a playful, personally addressed essay film—ideal if the pleasure of Hopper/Welles was watching a great filmmaker think aloud.
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MOVIE2020 2h 10m USA
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My Dinner with Andre
Why this pick
Not a documentary, but its entire force comes from an intense, funny, searching exchange between two artists—an absorbing conversational duel with shifting ideas and power.
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The Other Side of the Wind
Why this pick
Welles’s long-unfinished Hollywood satire offers the brash, fragmented creative energy behind the interview, with Dennis Hopper among the ensemble and a deliberately unstable counterculture atmosphere.
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The Eyes of Orson Welles
Why this pick
A warmly inquisitive encounter with Welles through his paintings, letters and films; it shares the earlier documentary’s fascination with the man’s voice, intellect and restless visual imagination.
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My Best Fiend
Why this pick
Werner Herzog’s candid account of his volatile bond with Klaus Kinski has the same pleasure in watching formidable artistic personalities collide, recollect and resist easy mythmaking.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
An intimate and revelatory 1970 conversation between two film giants, Dennis Hopper, then riding high on the massive success of Easy Rider (1969), and Orson Welles, ever the iconoclast and an offscreen interviewer of probing authority.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
Janice Pennington
Janice Pennington
Glenn Jacobson
Glenn Jacobson