F for Fake (1973)

"Poetic and oh-so-funky, Orson Welles’s filmic essay on deception has balls of experimental steel. Cobbled together in his later years of European exile, it’s both a cheeky thesis on the nature of fakery and the best example I can imagine of filmmaking as giddy, childlike play. Now if someone would only do a decent DVD of The Trial, we’d be in business. (Nudge, nudge.)"

"It’s been a while since I’ve seen this, but I remember not wanting it to end. It would’ve been an amazing thing to get really drunk with Orson Welles and just listen to him go. This movie probably comes pretty close."

"So innovative and playful. Orson Welles makes it look like the easiest thing in the world, but this is such an amazing feat of engineering."

"As a longtime student of deception, and occasional practitioner, I find much to admire in this playful paean to the psychology of the con."