Movies: Glenn O'Brien

  • 2010
    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)

    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

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    A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive interviews conducted by Basquiat's friend, filmmaker Tamra Davis, the production reveals how he dealt...

    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
  • 2001
    Downtown '81

    Downtown '81 (2001)

    Downtown '81

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    The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose...

    Downtown '81
  • 1982
    Wild Style

    Wild Style (1982)

    Wild Style

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    Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city's hottest and most elusive graffiti writer. The actual story of the movie concerns the tension between Zoro's passion for his art and his personal life, particularly his...

    Wild Style
  • 2010
    Beautiful Darling

    Beautiful Darling (2010)

    Beautiful Darling

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    James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archiva...

    Beautiful Darling
  • 2018
    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2018)

    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

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    Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision....

    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • 2011
    Blank City

    Blank City (2011)

    Blank City

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    In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of thei...

    Blank City
  • 1981
    Subway Riders

    Subway Riders (1981)

    Subway Riders

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    A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down....

    Subway Riders
  • 2017
    Basquiat: Rage to Riches

    Basquiat: Rage to Riches (2017)

    Basquiat: Rage to Riches

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    This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and Jeanine, who have never before agreed to be interviewed for a TV documentary. With striking candour, Basquiat's art dealers - including Larry Gagosian, M...

    Basquiat: Rage to Riches
  • 1990
    Force of Circumstance

    Force of Circumstance (1990)

    Force of Circumstance

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    A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents....

    Force of Circumstance
  • 2011
    Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

    Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston (2011)

    Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

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    A glowing, prismatic portrait of the rise and fall of America's first celebrity designer—Halston—the man who was synonymous with fashion in the 1970s, and became the emperor of NYC nightlife. Interviews with friends and witnesses (including Liza Minn...

    Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
  • 1972
    Andy Warhol

    Andy Warhol (1972)

    Andy Warhol

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    With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a brilliant manipulator, dedicated voyeur and person of astute commercial judgment....

    Andy Warhol
  • 2005
    Face Addict

    Face Addict (2005)

    Face Addict

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    Face Addict tells the story of a unique and unrepeatable experience, that of the artistic community in New York between the late '70s and early '80s, known as the downtown scene....

    Face Addict
  • 2012
    Trophy Hunter

    Trophy Hunter (2012)

    Trophy Hunter

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    Trophy Hunter, a short, fake documentary about illegal wildlife trade that Josh and Benny made for the Turtle Conservancy in 2012. It features the late great New York icon Glenn O’Brien visiting an eccentric Chinese collector....

    Trophy Hunter
  • 1969
    A Clean Sweep

    A Clean Sweep (1969)

    A Clean Sweep

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    This short film explores memory and transformation by cataloging landmarks that aren’t even a decade old: 1 World Trade Center, the 59th Street Apple Store, the new Beatrice Inn and spiffed-up SoHo. The narration, a meditation on the life of the city...

    A Clean Sweep