Basquiat is directed by the acclaimed American filmmaker / artist Julian Schnabel, his first feature film at the time (1996) before going on to make Before Night Falls (2000) and The Diving Bell and ...

While filming Basquiat, the 1996 film from director Julian Schnabel, Jeffrey Wright was tasked with slipping into the world of the artist Jean Michel Basquiat. If the nature of the role wasn’t ...

The cinema — or, at least, fiction films — have rarely served the visual arts in a credible manner. Movies, being an inherently hyperbolic medium, tend to stretch the truth something fierce in order ...