Thanks, Criterion, for keeping the film’s mystique of fakery alive.
The film is one of the more wistfully humorous of Welles’s wrestlings with reality.
It’s All True is an essential piece in the Orson Welles puzzle.
Every fragment of Welles footage that surfaces is another dent in the tired argument that the man’s only claim to fame was Citizen Kane.
It’s a sentimental journey that is, nonetheless, always ready to remind the spectator that there is no trespassing.
Its treasure trove of features will be a great introduction for remaining novices.