I was able to see a rough cut screening of Tamara Davis’s upcoming new movie Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child<\/i> as well as a brief Q and A afterwords. I like JMB and the whole New York scene of the early eighties so I was looking forward to this, but at the same time I was hoping for something really new that I hadn’t seen before that helps tear down or build up the mythology. Davis’s film, the core of which is her footage shot a year or so (maybe more) before his death is really strong, I just wish there were more of that and less people talking about him.<\/p>\n
Davis’s goal is to humanize the mythology of JMB and she gets close, and I’m sure will get closer as she continues to dial in the movie, as I stated before – the movie is a rough cut and it’s strong. I wonder if I’m too close to the subject matter to see it as a “normal” viewer.<\/p>\n
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child<\/i> will premier at Sundance later this winter. I think Miss Davis has some work in front of her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was able to see a rough cut screening of Tamara Davis’s upcoming new movie Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child as well as a brief Q and A afterwords. I like JMB and the whole New York scene of the early eighties so I was looking forward to this, but at the same time I was hoping for something really new that I hadn’t seen before that helps tear down or build up the mythology. Davis’s film, the core of which is her footage shot a year or so (maybe more) before his death is really strong, I just wish…<\/p>\n