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Basquiat (1996) Black and White Version

Opens on November 22

Director: Julian Schnabel Run Time: 108 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1996

Starring: Benicio del Toro, Claire Forlani, David Bowie, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott

Country: United States
Language: English, Spanish


Restored in a new 4K black and white version, featuring a color sequence for its coda, supervised by artist and director Julian Schnabel.


About the film:

Jean-Michel Basquiat transformed from a street kid to a painter who electrified the 1980s New York scene—and the rest is (art) history. His visionary blend of expressionism, pop art, and the radical new aesthetics of hip-hop and graffiti propelled him to international fame before his untimely demise.

About the filmmaker: 

Julian Schnabel is an American painter and filmmaker. In the 1980s, he received international attention for his “plate paintings”—with broken ceramic plates set onto large-scale paintings. Since the 1990s, he has been a proponent of independent arthouse cinema. Basquiat (1996) was Schnabel’s feature directorial debut.

 

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