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ART AND CRAFT

Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman, Mark Becker United States, 2014
The closer you get to one of master art forger Mark Landis's faked paintings, the stranger the idea of celebrating individual creation seems. Meanwhile, the closer you get to Landis, the more you learn over the course of the film, the odder and more distinctive he appears. One of the great documentary characters, Landis evokes Robert Crumb or maybe Edith and Edie, but truly can be compared to no one we've seen in mainstream nonfiction.
January 9, 2015
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This documentary depicts Landis as a pitiable but compelling eccentric who fools collectors just for the pleasure of it; he's never been prosecuted because he's never asked for money for any of his paintings... Directors Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman maintain a bright tone and a melancholy undercurrent, which combine in an eminently watchable character study.
October 8, 2014
Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker's compelling but dubious documentary begins toward the end of Landis's counterfeiting career, after he's been outed in several magazine and newspaper profiles but is still occasionally bequeathing his forgeries under different aliases... When [Landis] ventures out into the world... he's painted as more of a freak to gawk at—an off-kilter copy of a human being as opposed to truly, deeply human.
September 15, 2014
Landis, who lives alone in Laurel, Mississippi, is a compelling subject, a bent, gray little bat-eared Egon Schiele sketch of a man whose slow, pharmaceutical drawl hides a droll sense of humor... An OCD personality in his own right, Leininger has a one-sided "relationship" with Landis, having tracked his movements for years—and their built-up confrontation is as satisfying an anticlimax as any I've seen in years.
May 28, 2014
Shrewdly, the directors refuse to articulate their own opinions of, or outrage over, Landis, instead presenting him as an exceptionally curious personality engaged in a form of duplicative manufacturing born from a combination of childhood distress, adolescent psychological trauma, and inexplicable mania. It's a portrait of, if not a painter of any real renown, a devious and generous charlatan of the highest order.
April 18, 2014
The access is kind of amazing — how often do you see a documentary where you see both the guy being chased and the guy chasing him? But what's even more amazing is the surprisingly touching direction in which Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman's film goes, as the world finally begins to catch up to Landis.
April 4, 2014