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Movies For The Spring Semester :: TBA

Downtown 81 [ featuring Basquiat ] September 21
2000
Shot as ''New York Beat'' in 1980-81 but completed for release in 2001, ''Downtown 81'' emerges as a nostalgic portrait of pre-Giuliani Manhattan, an unruly place full of garbage, graffiti, rubble-strewn lots, unlicensed after-hours clubs and highly idealistic kids eager to make their mark as avant-garde artists and musicians.The film's central figure is Jean, a young bohemian engagingly played by a not yet famous Jean-Michel Basquiat. The fictional character's life bears a powerful resemblance to Basquiat's own at the time: he is a struggling musician (Basquiat's band, Gray, is heard on the soundtrack) and graffiti artist living on the Lower East Side, trying to patch a life together from cadged meals and drink tickets and the occasional sale of a painting.

Artemisia September 28
1997
'Artemisia,'' is Agnes Merlet's high-toned bodice-ripper about the early life and times of the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. This handsomely photographed film, whose indoor scenes recreate the heavy chiaroscuro of Caravaggio paintings, takes a decidedly 90's view of a woman whom feminist art historians rescued from obscurity in the 1970's. If the central character emerges as a feminist heroine for flouting patriarchical taboos, she also happens to be a tantalizing sex kitten whose artistic curiosity smacks of voyeurism.

I Shot Andy Warhol October 5
1996
The true story of Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist who became notorious after shooting art world icon Andy Warhol, is portrayed in this fact-based drama.

Surviving Picasso October 12
1996
The story of Picasso's remarkable misanthropy is told as experienced by his mistress Francoise Gilot (Natasha McElhone). Francoise was Picasso's lover from 1944 to 1954, and they had two children together, Claude and Paloma.