Basquiat
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Movie Reviews of Basquiat
Movie Review: Street Art, Abstract Art
Summary: 5 Stars
"Basquiat" was Julian Schnabel's first art house flick in 1996. It garnered critical attention with performances from David Bowie (as Andy Warhol), Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, as well as newcomers like Benicio del Toro, Claire Forlani, and Parker Posey. Jeffrey Wright is excellent as Basquiat,the graffiti artist who enjoyed great success, but then fell through his own excesses.
"Basquiat" is visually striking. After all, director Schnabel is a painter. The screen is his canvas. This movie is nearly 15 years old, yet it retains its freshness and vigor. The vividness is as great as when it first came out. "Basquiat" is painting on the screen!
Movie Review: Compelling and tragic
Summary: 5 Stars
Basquiat's life and demise are lessons in too-sudden fame and the exploitation of African Americans, street people, and the poor. Julian Schnabel has made a subtle and artistically structured tribute to Basquiat, the kind of tribute that only a fellow artist could make. The film exposes the New York art world for some of its artificiality, power plays, maneuvers and corruption in the lime-lighting of potential money-making genius. The film, however, feeds the myth that great artists are marginally sane and creative to the extent of that marginality. An excellent choice for viewing.Movie Review: Basquiat a treasure worth owning.
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has a wonderfully talented cast. Jeffrey Wright's portrayal of Basquiat is very subtle and quite moving and I enjoy taking in something new in his portrayal of the ill-fated Basquiat each time I view this work. David Bowie as Warhol, Christopher Walken as the interviewer, Benicio del Toro, and even Willem Dafoe as a sculptor/electrician. Wow! Dennis Hopper in a very unusual role for him, stands out as an art collector/dealer. The casting agent has my taste in talent as they cast all of my favorite actors and personalities in one movie! It is definitely worth owning.Movie Review: Fast shipping
Summary: 5 Stars
My experience with Amazon has been amazing. Everything I have ordered has been shipped extreemly fast. I had seen the movie before and had an idea what it was about. Besides Rotten Tomatoes movie review has very good reviews on most movies available today. I will add also that the movie did a pretty good gob of showing what Basquiat may have lived through during his most popular years. To be able to really show the inner driving force of this artist is as hard as it would be with Vincent VanGough, and the movie tried to do just that.
Movie Review: JMB
Summary: 5 Stars
Clearly, this isn't the best movie that you gonna see, but it's really interesting and funny, because at least two things: One, it's always a very funny thing watching Bowie performing anything, but specially doing Warhol. The white duke is the best "fake" Andy i've ever seen. Second, the film introduces to the world a great weird and loving artist, like Samo. This is not an awesome film, but certly it is a good movie about great people.
Jeffrey Wright is memorable playing Basquiat.