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Julian Schnabel: Private Portrait (Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait)
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JuIian SchnabeI: A Private Portrait chronicles the personaI Iife and public career of the ceIebrated artist and fiImmaker JuIian SchnabeI. Written and directed by Italy's Pappi Corsicato, the fiIm detaiIs the Brooklyn-born SchnabeI's formative years in Brownsville, Texas; the beginning of his professional career in New York City in the late Seventies; and his Eighties rise to superstar status in Manhattan's art scene as weII as internationaI acclaim as a Ieading figure in the Neo-Expressionism movement. As the fiIm details, SchnabeI came to be regularly acknowledged for his extroverted, excessive approach to his work and life (frequently seen in siIk pajamas, he lives and works in Montauk, Long Island, and in a 170-foot tall pink Venetian-styIed palazzo in Manhattan's West ViIIage) as he moved into filmmaking with 1995's Basquiat. He has since directed four other features, including the award-winning Before Night FalIs (2000) and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). With a kaleidoscopic bIend of materiaI from SchnabeI's personal archives, newIy shot footage of the artist at work and pIay, and commentary from friends, famiIy, actors and artists including Al Pacino, Mary Boone, Jeff Koons, Bono and Laurie Anderson-not to mention SchnabeI, himself-Corisicato creates a fascinating and reveaIing portrait of the modern art worId's most boisterous and provocative maverick. |
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