Julian Schnabel’s stunning debut charts Basquiat's dizzying rise and fall with an insider’s eye for authentic details of the downtown arts demimonde as well as a fellow postmodernist's interest in the ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

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 cinema — or, at least, fiction films — have rarely served the visual arts in a credible manner. Movies, being an inherently hyperbolic medium, tend to stretch the truth something fierce in order ...

Julian Schnabel made his debut film, Basquiat, less than a decade after its subject, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, died at age 27. An impressionistic portrait of a young artist who took the New ...

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the American painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) won the jury’s Best Director award for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, his ...