"Jean-Michel" is the Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary we've been waiting for — the fantastic one he deserves. Over the years, there have been a sprinkling of films built around Basquiat, like the boho ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. It was a very busy week at the Toronto International Film Festival. Catch up with some of ...

The Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Samo Lives, starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., has added to its cast. Deadline reports that Danny Ramirez, Jeffrey Wright, Dane DeHaan, Kathryn Newton, Thomas Kretschmann, ...

Traces the meteoric rise to fame of the Haitian-Puerto Rican artist whose success was unprecedented for an artist of colour in the U.S. Geoff Dunlop avoids the tawdry gossip and spectacle that have ...

Netflix acquired the first-ever documentary made with full participation from Basquiat’s family, and it’s hitting Tribeca this summer before landing on the platform. Directors Quinn Whitney Wilson and ...

Coinciding with its world premiere at Tribeca, Netflix has acquired the feature documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat, an intimate look at the influential New York artist. The film marks Quinn Whitney ...

A collection of two announcements, one press-release nd one Japanese promotional book for the Basquiat movie Downtown 81 (published circa 2001).

"Any resemblance to reality is purely magical," gushes the narrator in Edo Bertoglio's "Downtown 81," a portrait of the early '80s underground art scene of lower Manhattan. This lark of a boho odyssey ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced ...

It’s the first Basquiat film built around his family's archive, and it's also the first to penetrate the Basquiat mystique.