Line Producers DUANE ANDERSEN LAURA MONTOYA. The film was screened at a number of 2014 film festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival, Hot Docs, and AFI Docs Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Feature. The film documents the life of former magician, escape artist, and skeptical educator James Randi, in particular the investigations through which Randi publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and con-artists. Toole also edited the film. Outstanding documentary, all the way around. An Honest Liar documents James Randi's early life as a carnival-bound refugee from Toronto who, early on, dedicated himself to learning every trick performed by Harry Houdini, and even improving on some of them. AN HONEST LIAR Left Turn Films & Pure Mutt Productions In Association with BBC Storyville & Part2 Filmworks. The film documents the life of former magician, escape artist, and skeptical educator James Randi, in particular … 9.6K likes. You can only admire that the man claiming such things to be 'fake', seems to back up his claims by explaining how they're done to the people who matter. Sunday, November 15th FILM RESPONSE #4: : AN HONEST LIAR DUE via CANVAS by 11:59pm After watching the film An Honest Liar, compose a two paragraph formal response that discusses various ways “honesty” and “deception” are explored in the film. Share. An Honest Liar tells the incredible story of the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James 'The Amazing' Randi. Use the HTML below. Genre: Biography, Social Issues. The film brings to life Randi’s intricate investigations that publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and con-artists with quasi-religious fervor. 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Randi becomes a recurring guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and makes appearances on TV shows such as Happy Days and in rock music artist Alice Cooper's 1973 Billion Dollar Babies tour, where Randi, portraying the Executioner, decapitates Cooper at the end of each performance. AN HONEST LIAR is a feature documentary about the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James 'The Amazing' Randi. [17] Its wide releases was March 6, 2015. Whilst not all of this was shown here, he obviously ruffled enough feathers to hopefully allow people to see what really may be going on behind the scenes.All-in-all... a good watch.8/10. 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