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Director: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Jeffrey Wright David Bowie Benicio del Toro Dennis Hopper Gary Oldman Michael Wincott
Genre: Biography Drama
Premiere: August 9, 1996
Running time: 102 min
Country: USA

Basquiat is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed, written and co-scored 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 painter.

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".

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Basquiat is a movie (1996) from USA. Genre: biography, drama. Directed by Julian Schnabel. Starring Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Hopper and Gary Oldman. Running time: 102 min. Rating: 6.5/10.

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