Reasons to Love New York
New Yorkcelebrates the citys timeless, peerless connection to movies.
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Hollywood doesnt often get art right.
Maybe its because being an artist is such an internal, private thing.
How do objects interact with ones times?
What is the role of talent, luck, drive, jealousy, and lifestyle?
Most movies about artists seem fake to anyone in the art world.
As a wannabe nobody, I was at the packed Mary Boone Basquiat show in 1985.
It was a radiant yet terrifying sight: the look of someone who had set themselves free.
The density of New York is a co-star of this film.
The film becomes a documentary of an age, of a way of knowing the world and being human.
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