Posts Tagged ‘Jamie Kastner’

NEWSTALK 1010: THE RICHARD CROUSE SHOW FOR JUNE 16, 2019 “THERE ARE NO FAKES”!

This week on The Richard Crouse Show: A new documentary called “There Are No Fakes” explores what the filmmaker says could be the largest art fraud scam in Canadian history. What begins as a document of a court case and its countersuits turns into something more important, more vital, as it underlines how Indigenous artists, even world-famous ones, have been exploited. Joining me in studio are director Jamie Kastner and one of the film’s subjects, Barenaked Ladies member Kevin Hearn.

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RICHARD’S WEEKEND MOVIE REVIEWS FROM CP24! FRIDAY JUNE 14, 2019.

Richard joins CP24 anchor Stephanie Smythe to have a look at the weekend’s new movies including “Men in Black: International,” “Late Night” and the documentaries “There Are No Fakes” and “Watergate.”

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RICHARD’S CTV NEWSCHANNEL WEEKEND MOVIE REVIEWS FOR JUNE 14.

Richard sits in on the CTV NewsChannel with news anchor Beverly Thomson have a look at the weekend’s big releases including “Men in Black: International,” “Late Night” and the documentaries “There Are No Fakes” and “Watergate.”

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CTVNEWS.CA: THE CROUSE REVIEW ON “MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL” AND MORE!

A weekly feature from ctvnews.ca! The Crouse Review is a quick, hot take on the weekend’s biggest and most interesting movies! This week Richard looks at “Men in Black: International,” “Late Night” and the documentary “There Are No Fakes” with CFRA Morning Rush host Bill Carroll.

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CFRA IN OTTAWA: THE BILL CARROLL MORNING SHOW MOVIE REVIEWS!

Richard has a look at the new movies coming to theatres, including “Men in Black: International” with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson stepping in for Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, “Late Night,” starring Mindy J+Kaling and Emma Thompson and the documentaries “Watergate” and “There Are No Fakes” with CFRA Morning Rush host Bill Carroll.

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THERE ARE NO FAKES: 4 STARS. “revelations of sex, drugs and exploitation.”

Norval Morrisseau was once called “the Picasso of the North.” The Anishinaabe artist was a stylist whose unique vision created a new kind of visual storytelling. His bright colours and bold illustration brought traditional Indigenous stories to life in a way that made him famous and today he thought of as the grandfather of contemporary First Nations art in Canada.

A new documentary, “There Are No Fakes” from director Jamie Kastner, starts with the purchase of a $20,000 Morrisseau called “The Spirit Energy of Mother Earth.” Barenaked Ladies member and art collector Kevin Hearn purchased the painting in 2005, the same year the artist established a foundation to catalogue and authenticate all legitimate copies of his work. The painting hung on Hearn’s wall for five years until he loaned it to the Art Gallery of Ontario for public display. When the AGO raised doubts about the painting’s legitimacy, it was taken down. When Hearn questioned the dealer he bought the forgery from he was met with the phrase that gives the film its name, “There are no fakes.” Except there are. Possibly thousands of them.

The lawsuit Hearn filed against the dealer provides Kastner with the bedrock of the story. The film’s first half introduces a cast of characters worthy of any story of intrigue. From angry art dealers and Morrisseau’s earnest apprentice to lawyers under siege and an out-of-pocket Barenaked Lady, “There Are No Fakes” examines the murky world of high stakes art.

It’s in the movie’s second half that Kastner, through his investigative work, uncovers the sordid story behind the underground trafficking of fake Morrisseau art. It’s a journey that veers away from the tony galleries of Toronto’s Yorkville neighborhood to Thunder Bay and shocking revelations involving sex, drugs and exploitation.

“There Are No Fakes” is more than a simple procedural. Kastner carefully lays out the story, finding the rich corners in the personalities of his subject before slowing the film’s pace and tone for the explosive final disclosures. What begins as a document of a court case and its countersuits turns into something more important, more vital, as it underlines how Indigenous artists, even world-famous ones, have been exploited.

ICYMI POP LIFE: FULL “LEGACY” EPISODE FROM SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2018.

ICYMI Pop Life for April 21, 2018: Inheriting and creating legacies. The Pop Life panel, wine making legend Alessia Antinori, documentary filmmaker Jamie Kastner and ReelWorld Film Festival founder and actor Tonya Williams, weigh in on the responsibility of keeping a legacy alive and the efforts to create one.

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CHECK IT OUT: RICHARD’S “HOUSE OF CROUSE” PODCAST EPISODE 85!

Welcome to the House of Crouse. Today around the old HoC we’re thinking locally but acting globally. Joyce A. Nashawati’s pre-apocalyptic film “Blind Sun” sets xenophobia and alienation against the sunny backdrop of Athens, Greece. Jamie Kastner’s documentary “The Skyjacker’s Tale” tells the story of Ishmael Muslim Ali an American convicted of murdering eight people in the US Virgin Islands who hijacked an American Airlines plane full of passengers to Cuba on New Years Eve 1984, and got away with it. Until now. Great stories, so come on in and sit a spell.

THE SECRET DISCO REVOLUTION: 3 STARS

stills_14Documentarian Jamie Kastner attempts to place the “boogie oogie oogie” of disco music in a political context, trotting out academics who describe a Donna Summer hit as “the feminist critique of three minute sex,” and noting how the music provided liberation for gays, African-Americans and women. It’s an interesting thesis, but one that is presented, rather than proven. It is however, fun to see the grainy archival footage–Bob Hope jiving with the Village People while Henry Kissinger watches from the audience is a sign of the apocalypse for sure—and hear the legends of the music chime in on the heady days when shaking your booty could still be considered subversive.