The festival is not only the first major North American film festival held in person since COVID-19, but the first major cultural milestone to lure New Yorkers out of their homes.
In the process of doing that, I think people felt like they were doing something useful and helping to regenerate the neighborhood and realizing how life could keep going.
“People help by doing what they know how to do.
Schnabel was speaking to Vanity Fair in anticipation of Thursday’s anniversary screening of Basquiat, the 1996 biopic about the doomed 80s prodigy, that was presented in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art.
“For the 20th anniversary of Basquiat, they screened it in Montauk, on the side of a building in a kind of makeshift celebration,” explained Schnabel .“It was a bunch of friends sitting on sofas and the guy working the projector didn’t know how to get the color correct.
The black-and-white film is juxtaposed in the credits, Schnabel said, with a sequence in which Jean-Michel paints in color.
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