01 Jan 2012
Being and Becoming Chua Ek Kay
The film offers exclusive and intimate insights into how and why the classically trained artist risked rejection to revolutionize the traditional Chinese ink art form in Singapore.
F for Fake
A magician is just an actor playing the part of a magician.
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
Top Billed Cast
Oja Kodar The Girl
Elmyr de Hory Self
Laurence Harvey Self
Edith Irving Self
David Walsh Self
Paul Stewart Self
Richard Wilson Self
Joseph Cotten Self
Julio Palinkas Self
Françoise Widhoff Self
Mark Forgy Self
Nina van Pallandt Self
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