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New York Beat Movie (Downtown 81) – 1981: Rambling, amateurish and often incoherent, this film portrays the day-to-day routine of Jean-Michel Basquiat: artist and (sometime) musician, as he tries to survive amidst rappers, junkies, gangsters, strippers, models and uptown art-lovers.
Plot: New York, 1968. Beautiful Chelsea Deardon is celebrating her 8th birthday with a swinging party in her father’s artist loft/studio in Soho. Chelsea’s old dad is a celebrated painter and he has dedicated a special picture to her with
Jeanne is confronted with a terrible truth – although she has loved to the edge of madness, her Modigliani is also one of the most overrated artists of all time.
Of all the Hollywood movies about artists perhaps one of the best known of the last decade is Julian Schnabel’s affectionate 1996 biopic of his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. The movie is great example of the ‘troubled genius’ approach to making