The film (firrst released in full color) originally opened in 1996 and played at the Venice Film Festival, before hitting US theaters in the fall of '96. The brief life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a ...
JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT was described by The New York Times as "the art world's closest equivalent to James Dean." Young, talented and good looking, the painter died of a heroin overdose in 1988 at the ...
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 ...