JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD documentary film of a legendary artist August 20, 2010

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD
Documentary details the rise and fall of legendary artist
Opens Friday, August 20, 2010 at Nuart, Los Angeles

Landmark’s Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 281-8223
Tickets are $10.50 for general admission and $8.00 for seniors, students, and children
Showtimes: Fri- Sun at 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 & 9:50; Mon- Thu at 5:10, 7:30 & 9:50
Showtimes are valid August 20 to August 26
Advance ticket purchase at: http://www.landmarktheatres.com/tickets and at theatre box office.
http://www.jean-michelbasquiattheradiantchild.com/

Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment present JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD, opening August, 20 2010, at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles for a one-week engagement.

Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat over twenty years ago, this definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young artist. In the crime-ridden NYC of the 1970s, he covers the city with the graffiti tag SAMO. In 1981 he puts paint on canvas for the first time, and by 1983 he is an artist with “rock star status.” He achieves critical and commercial success, though he is constantly confronted by racism from his peers. In 1985 he and Andy Warhol become close friends and painting collaborators, but they part ways and Warhol dies suddenly in 1987. Basquiat’s heroin addiction worsens, and he dies of an overdose in 1988 at the age of 27. The artist was 25 years old at the height of his career, and today his canvases sell for more than a million dollars. With compassion and psychological insight, Tamra Davis details the mysteries that surround this charismatic young man, an artist of enormous talent whose fortunes mirrored the rollercoaster quality of the downtown scene he seemed to embody.

Featuring interviews with Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian, Bruno Bischofberger, Tony Shafrazi, Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Glenn O'Brien, Maripol, Kai Eric, Nicholas Taylor, Fred Hoffmann, Michael Holman, Diego Cortez, Annina Nosei, Suzanne Mallouk, Rene Ricard, Kenny Scharf, among many others. This definitive documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2010.

The film’s running time is 94 minutes; and is not rated.

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