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"From a quick online inquiry into his artwork it seems that Julian Schnabel is not as much of a screw up as a painter as he is as a filmmaker. I have now seen two of his abysmal films, the first being The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (an utter abomination) that earned Julian Schnabel a best director nomination at the 2007 Academy Awards (of course the academy likes his pretentious dribble). The second miserable film of his I had the displeasure of watching is Basquiat, a biopic about contemporary (and possible friend) Jean-Michel Basquiat. I read on wikipedia that Basquiat had regular art showings with Julian Schnabel. This leads me to believe that Schnabel knew the man and could at least provide some insight into his art, his mind, his mannerisms, something, in his movie. Unfortunately, Schnabel is a terrible filmmaker and in this case, maybe a terrible observer of humanity. He portrays Basquiat as a hollow, lackluster shell of a human being. Actor Jeffrey Wright give ... "
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"The Playlist passes along word that David Bowie has recorded back-up vocals for Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson’s Tom Waits covers album. The record’s producer, Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio, describes Anywhere as having a “‘cough medicine/TinkerBell’ vibe”??????which, funnily enough, seems as good a description as any of Bowie’s performance as Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat. In other indie-cred starlet-turned-pop star news, remember Zooey Deschanel’s album? Justin Wolfe, that smart-star who writes one of the blogs I mentioned in this post about The Hills, wrote an incredible post last week, in which he made the argument that, as “extension of their brand, from image to sound”?? the She and Him stuff as a Zooey Deschanel product is materially the same as Hills star Heidi Montag’s much-
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"The Playlist passes along word that David Bowie has recorded back-up vocals for Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson’s Tom Waits covers album. The record’s producer, Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio, describes Anywhere as having a “‘cough medicine/TinkerBell’ vibe”??????which, funnily enough, seems as good a description as any of Bowie’s performance as Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat. In other indie-cred starlet-turned-pop star news, remember Zooey Deschanel’s album? Justin Wolfe, that smart-star who writes one of the blogs I mentioned in this post about The Hills, wrote an incredible post last week, in which he made the argument that, as “extension of their brand, from image to sound”?? the She and Him stuff as a Zooey Deschanel product is materially the same as Hills star Heidi Montag’s much-
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"Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly won him the Director award at Cannes this year. After seeing it this morning, I can’t argue with the Cannes’ jury. I was simply blown away. How can somebody tell a gripping story of a man who–resulting from a stroke–can only communicate with one eyelid? All I can say is you will simply be amazed. I interviewed Julian Schnabel and asked why he continues to orbit around intensely creative but “doomed” men (his previous two films are Basquiat and Before Night Falls, biopics about Jean Michel Basquiat and Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas). Julian Schnabel interview Julian Schnabel in his regular attire (pajamas). The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls, Basquiat
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