Tag Archives: Jean Michel Basquiat
Glenn Gone
Last Friday I was posting the latest From the Archives pick when I read about Glenn O’Brien’s passing in The Guardian. Here’s the word… Glenn O’Brien, the New York cultural figure who was an author, musician, magazine editor, style guru, TV host and key figure at Andy Warhol’s Factory, has died aged 70. Described by [...]
Basquiat’s Downtown
The following review originally appeared in The Contributor newspaper in Nashville, TN… Music Box Films’ new DVD release of Downtown 81 offers a fitting occasion for revisiting the iconic film as well as the music and art scenes it captured on celluloid. It also dresses-up the cult flick with a menu of extras and the [...]
Writing on Walls on Film
I just turned in my column for next week’s Contributor, reviewing the new DVD release of the Jean Michel Basquiat film Downtown ’81. While Style Wars is often mentioned as the first hip-hop documentary, Downtown ’81 was shot a few years earlier even though it wasn’t released until 2000. The film is actually fictional, but [...]
Boom! For Real!
What up, peeps? Hooked up with the painter Matt Carver today to check out the Basquiat doc The Radiant Child. I really enjoyed it. If you’ve stayed up late at night searching for every piece of film the man has appeared on you’ll recognize much of the footage and many of the photos, but hearing his [...]
