Tag: Basquiat
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‘Pet Shop Days’ Review: Two Men With Daddy Issues Attract One Another, and Trouble, in Promising Nepo Debut
A scrappy urban tale of misspent young adulthood, Olmo Schnabel’s “Pet Shop Days” evokes the blown-out, stolen-shot 16mm character studies of 1990s independent cinema, as well as the bohemian oeuvre of painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, his father. This isn’t attributable merely to the fact that the younger Schnabel includes a scene in which his…
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Julian Schnabel On Doing Some van Gogh Paintings Himself For ‘At Eternity’s Gate’
Julian Schnabel’s portrait of Vincent van Gogh’s artistically illuminated but mentally dark final period, “At Eternity’s Gate,” has world premiered positively at the Venice Film Festival where the artist and director spoke to Variety about making this movie about a painter that intends to be stand-out in the genre.You’ve directed a film about a painter…