FAKE

False child, art forgery, duplicitous moles, unreliable reality

Reviews:

• The Imposter: Jaw-dropping documentary about a man who managed to impersonate a missing child

• Shadow Dancer:  James Marsh returns with a fictional account of an IRA member turned informer

• F for Fake: Orson Welles explores all forms of art forgery

• Prisoners of War: In this Israeli series  prisoners of war who may have been ‘turned’ return home

• I Know Where I’m Going!: Powell and Pressburger create authenticity through cinema trickery

Articles:

• Fakery in Christopher Nolan’s work

• Sugar Coating: The fabrication of a nostalgic myth in Searching for Sugar Man

Interview:

• Peter Strickland talks about Berberian Sound Studio, an homage to the giallo that plays with the boundaries between fiction and reality

Comic Strip Review:

• Fab Four parody The Rutles

Podcast:

• Unreliable images: Alex Fitch talks to director John Simon about his adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Radio Free Albemuth and to director Berton Pierce and special effects expert Greg Aronowitz about the film Sense of Scale, a documentary on model making in the cinema.

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Illustration by Clíodhna Ztoical