Basquiat (film)

Basquiat
Basquiat
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Julian Schnabel
Screenplay by	Julian Schnabel
Story by	Lech Majewski
Produced by	Jon Kilik; Sigurjón Sighvatsson; Randy Ostrow;
Starring	Jeffrey Wright; David Bowie; Dennis Hopper; Gary Oldman; Michael Wincott; Benicio del Toro; Claire Forlani; Courtney Love; Parker Posey;
Cinematography	Ron Fortunato
Edited by	Michael Berenbaum
Music by	John Cale; Julian Schnabel;
Production; company	Eleventh Street Productions
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date	August 9, 1996;
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English; Spanish;
Budget	$3.3 million
Box office	$3 million

Basquiat is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed, written and co-composed by Julian Schnabel in his feature directorial debut. The film is based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. It is the first film about an American painter written and directed by another artist.^[3]

Jeffrey Wright portrays Basquiat, a Brooklyn-born artist who used his graffiti roots as a foundation to create collage-style paintings on canvas. David Bowie plays Basquiat's friend and mentor, pop artist Andy Warhol. Additional cast members include Gary Oldman as a character based on Schnabel, Michael Wincott as the poet and art critic Rene Ricard, Dennis Hopper as Bruno Bischofberger, Parker Posey as gallery owner Mary Boone, and Claire Forlani, Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Courtney Love, Tatum O'Neal, and Benicio del Toro in supporting roles as "composite characters".

^ "BASQUIAT (15)". British Board of Film Classification. December 6, 1996. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Weinreich, Regina (August 11, 1996). "Schnabel Becomes a Director To Film the Life of Basquiat". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 8, 2021.