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Oja Kodar has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s.
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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.
Dir. Orson Welles, François Reichenbach · With Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
Dir. Morgan Neville · With Alan Cumming, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar
At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.
Dir. Orson Welles · With John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich
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