Art School Confidential R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 10, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Sophia Myles, Anjelica Huston & Jim Broadbent | |
Performer: | Ezra Buzzington, Matt Keeslar & Steve Buscemi | |
Directed by | Terry Zwigoff | |
Music by | David Kitay | |
Screenwriting by | Daniel Clowes | |
Produced by | Russell Smith & Daniel Clowes | |
Director of Photography: | Jamie Anderson |
Entertainment Reviews:
John Malkovich's performance as a drawing instructor is sly and insightful...
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Unfortunately, the tender observations Zwigoff and Clowes specialize in are largely missing from Art School Confidential, which spends its energy on the zany people who'd usually pepper the edges of their films.
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Paste Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
It's the work of two misanthropes in an even worse mood than usual.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 3/4 --
No matter which is the real imitator, life or art, Art School Confidential does its own fine job skewering both.
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Seattle Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Cynical and raunchy comedy for adults only.
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Common Sense Media
The film is fine at mocking beyond-pretentious art-school staff and students...
Entertainment Weekly
[The film] deftly evokes the peculiar, funny-sad heartbreak of the aspiring genius...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Artist and writer Daniel Clowes has garnered some impressive acclaim for the collection of social misfits and oddballs he lovingly etches into the pages of his comicbook EIGHTBALL. In 2001 Clowes teamed up with director Terry Zwigoff (CRUMB) to bring one of his stories to life--the long-running strip GHOST WORLD. ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL finds Clowes and Zwigoff reconvening once again, this time for a satirical stab at the willfully pretentious denizens of the art-school world. Max Minghella stars as Jerome Platz, a full-lipped, charcoal-eyed freshman who dreams of making it big in the art world. Jerome takes classes at the Strathmore Institute from Professor Sandiford (John Malkovich), a terrible hack whose lack of talent and taste is mirrored in his own wretchedly pompous works. But as Sandiford scoffs at Jerome's natural ability and passes him over in favor of the talentless jock Jonah (Matt Keeslar), our young hero cares less and less as he delves into a blinkered infatuation with a model named Audrey (Sophia Myles).
Clowes doubtless drew on his own art-school experiences to craft many of the characters for Zwigoff's movie, and viewers from a similar background will likely want to hide their eyes as a painful parade of highly affected youths litters the screen. Steve Buscemi, Jim Broadbent, and Angelica Huston make fleeting appearances, and a subplot about a serial killer breaks up the central narrative. Although Zwigoff and Clowes don't quite nail their characters as cohesively as they did with GHOST WORLD, the film does provide plenty of laughs, delightfully cocking a filmic snook at what can often be a very self-absorbed institution.
Clowes doubtless drew on his own art-school experiences to craft many of the characters for Zwigoff's movie, and viewers from a similar background will likely want to hide their eyes as a painful parade of highly affected youths litters the screen. Steve Buscemi, Jim Broadbent, and Angelica Huston make fleeting appearances, and a subplot about a serial killer breaks up the central narrative. Although Zwigoff and Clowes don't quite nail their characters as cohesively as they did with GHOST WORLD, the film does provide plenty of laughs, delightfully cocking a filmic snook at what can often be a very self-absorbed institution.
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- UPC: 043396158849
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