Alongside the development of his artistic career, the film follows Basquiat's tumultuous relationship with Gina, a fellow aspiring artist he meets while she is working as a waitress at …

Nov 14, 2024 · In a recent Instagram post, he talked about his time in the 1996 movie Basquiat. His character, Benny Dalmau, was inspired and partially named after the legendary Puerto …

Basquiat: Directed by Julian Schnabel. With Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani. The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist …

Aug 16, 1996 · His best friend from the early days, a Puerto Rican painter named Benny (Benicio Del Toro), finally drops him because of his self-destructiveness. Gina finds him nearly dead …

Aug 9, 1996 · “The whole point,” Julian Schnabel was quoted recently about his debut film delineating the brief life of fellow New York art star Jean-Michel Basquiat, “was not to have a …

Benicio del Toro plays Benny Dalmau, a character rumored to be based on Albert Díaz, Basquiat’s SAMO partner (though the film never spells this out). Gary Oldman steps into the …

Aug 16, 1996 · The unusual excellence of the score (John Cale) and cast — Wincott and Benicio Del Toro as Benny Dalmau steal the show — suggests that Schnabel’s movie forte may lie in …

Aug 9, 1996 · As played appealingly by Jeffrey Wright, the Tony Award winner for his role as the nurse Belize in ''Angels in America,'' and a star of ''Bring In da Noise, Bring In da Funk,''...

Julian Schnabel’s tribute to his friend and fellow painter Jean-Michel Basquiat is less a conventional biopic than an impressionistic, sensory immersion into the much-mythologized …

Feb 6, 2009 · dude had like 12 minutes of screen time and all he did was drugs, not his girl, and care about his friend lmao. ...more.