Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
(2017)
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Synopsis
This documentary recounts and contextualizes the early career of New York City graffiti artist-turned-acclaimed painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. His romantic partners and friends are interviewed as well as his street art contemporaries and icons of hip-hop culture, which informed his art before his death from a heroin overdose at age 27.
Directors
Sara Driver, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Felice Rosser, Alexis Adler, Glenn O'Brien, Al Diaz, Jim Jarmusch, Carlo McCormick, Patricia Field, Sara Driver, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Jean Labadie
Production year
2017
Rating
Studio
Magnolia Pictures
Runtime
78 minutes
Cast
Fred Brathwaite, Lee Quinones, Rodney Sur, Patricia Field, Diego Cortez