Has anyone else seen this film:





Its about this guy below jean michel basquiat a famous new york artist in the 80s who died from heroin sadly. David bowies great in the film as andy warhol and Jeffrey Wright is superb as basquiat its a sad story but a great film.





[Edited 8/20/08 8:27am]

loved it & him. expect to hear from sammi soon..

you forgot the S in Basquait. i'm sure i won't be the only one to point this out to you.

anyways, loved the movie! i wasn't feeling it during the first half and stopped it and came back to the second part (the part where he's in the limo after his gallery night) after getting smashed and loved it!

magnificentsynthesizer said:

and by smashed i mean i got really wasted not smashed in the way the kids are using this word nowdays.

loved it. Love jeffery wright too, any info on how he is after that incident down in louisiana?

Great movie and artist.

magnificentsynthesizer said:

truth be told the correct use of the term (if it were to be used in that sense) would be "after he smashed"...


so...no worries

A really good movie .

SirPsycho said:

ya damn skippy!



man, this movie was incredible. yes.

but if you want the REAL basquiat, watch Downtown81 (aka New York Beat)


you won't understand it, but that's alright.



but yeah, Basquiat was a nice film... I'm sure a lot of it was fictional though (the random affair with Big Pink (aka Madonna, played by courtney love?) )


i really enjoyed it, i was shown it in class in my first year of university. I've never been the same since.

sammij said:

I thought that was courtney love playing herself because in the film after basquiat meets her he starts taking heroin.

Is that "big bird" under his arm?

My favourite scene in the film is after basquiat finds out that andy warhol has died and he goes to try and get his mother out of the mental institution that shes held in, but the guard wont let him in the pain on his face is immense great acting. Then it cuts to him staggering down the street in his pjs and cloggs of his tits on heroin really powerful stuff especially with that strange bowie track playing in the background. Ill try and find the scene on youtube.
[Edited 8/20/08 8:37am]

Its the scene just before this one I cant find it though I love the pogues music on this scene.



This is another great scene the story his mother told him before she was sectioned.

Good movie.

I went to see his exhibit in the Brooklyn Musuem of Art a couple of years ago. Did anyone see it?

Bowie was great, movie was boring.

"pooooor dunce!"