Are there any nice people to talk to?

Art and Craft
2012
Cullman/Grausman

Stumbled upon this documentary on iTunes while checking out "The 0.99 Rental of the Week" selection. Ashamed to say I had never heard of Mark Landis - infamous art forger and fake (there might be a question mark) philantropist who conned (another question mark) art institutions and museums for almost thirty years "donating" them pieces by known artists, but actually made in Landis' bedroom while watching reruns of old films. 
The thing with documentaries for me is simple. If I like the main character and I am able to feel empathy or sympathy towards him or her, I'm sold. But this story was something else in its own. Mark Landis was able to fool museums all over US for years, offering them fake pieces, NOT asking money for it and posing as a philanthropist sharing his late mother's or sister's belongings. He had a gift of copying various styles of painting and doing it incredibly fast ... while watching TV. The way he did it, almost without passion, somewhat methodically, but absent-mindedly at the same time.
He had been diagnosed with various mental issues and was under a supervision, but other than that - he was just like your next door neighbour, his rooms filled with sketches, paintings, frames, photocopies. He not once bragged about his work, just said it was an easy thing to do. He knew his craft.
A very captivating film indeed.

One of the aliases he had while visiting museums was Father Scott. He just put on a white collar and said that "“You can learn everything you need to be a good priest from the Father Brown DVD series”