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DVD Bonus Features Include:
Deleted Scenes +
Featurettes: Art Industry 101
& The Wisdom of Nick Zedd +
Director's Commentary +
Theatrical Trailer

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UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
October 1, 2011
Martha's Vineyard Film Society
Martha's Vineyard, Mass


October 20, 2011 - 6pm
VENICE ART CRAWL
Venice, California


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featuring
MARK KOSTABI

with
Michel Gondry
- Pope Benedict XVI - Bill Clinton - Jeff Koons - Dennis Miller
Robin Leach - Maury Povich - Glenn O’Brien - Gary Indiana - Wichy Hassan
Robin Byrd - Daze - Baird Jones - Nick Zedd - Donald Kuspit - Mike Cockrill
and more!

music by
The Willowz - These Are Powers - Richie James Follin - The Movies - Peelander-Z - The Juggs
Guignol - Antimagic - Two Star Symphony - Phillip Roebuck - This Ambitious Orchestra
Dana Boulé
- The Battlecats - Robin Drysdale - Fur Cups For Teeth - 999999999 - The Sobs
and more!

"an entertaining documentary portrait of one of the art world's most outrageous provocateurs" - New York Times

"So the con game goes on. And we love it!" - Paper

"a reverie on the concept and addictive nature of celebrity" - Variety

"riveting, hilarious" - The Independent

"an entertaining boom-era fable" - New York Magazine

"Sladek's prickly documentary gets at the pitiful need and loneliness that drives fame whores" - Village Voice

"an entertainingly satirical doc" - Hollywood Reporter

"Kostabi's slow fade makes Con Artist a better movie" - Art in America

"a lively portrait of the enfant terrible in middle age" - Los Angeles Times

“a cautionary tale about the reckless pursuit of celebrity”
– Time Out Chicago, AA Dowd

"the filmmaker gives his subject more than enough rope to hang himself" - Time Out NY

"a riveting documentary" - Slant

"Sladek was obviously not out to do a puff piece" - Huffington Post

"breezy and funny" - Hammer to Nail, Michael Tully

"an excellent documentary" - L Magazine

“The most intriguing documentary we saw this year” - Cool Hunting

"you’ll enjoy every awkward, outrageous minute" - Oklahoma Gazette

"speaks volumes about what our society considers worthy of the cultural spotlight" - Orlando Weekly

"a fascinating story about antics too zany to believe if they weren’t completely true" - Denver Westword

PLUG UGLY FILMS in association with OVATION, THE GROUP ENTERTAINMENT,
ACME PICTURES
, ROOM 5 FILMS and NEW YORKER FILMS present CON ARTIST
co-producers MICHAEL NIGRO, DENIS JENSEN, MARK STEELE
co-producer / co-executive producerPERRY GREBIN
cinematography by MICHAEL SLADEK edited by JACOB BRICCA & MICHAEL SLADEK
executive producers GILL HOLLAND, GUILHERME CAMPELLON
directed and produced by MICHAEL SLADEK

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