Art School Confidential (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 6, 2018
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: MVD Marquee Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Sophia Myles, Angelica Huston & Jim Broadbent | |
Performer: | Ezra Buzzington, Matt Keeslar, Anjelica Huston & 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:
[The film] deftly evokes the peculiar, funny-sad heartbreak of the aspiring genius...
Los Angeles Times
The film is fine at mocking beyond-pretentious art-school staff and students...
Entertainment Weekly
Curiously, this relentlessly cynical tone turns out sounding refreshingly original compared to the usual pieties in the genre.
Observer
A stilted satire of teenage passion and apathy, sex and death and crime...so concerned with aping style that it never bothers to consider its characters as people.
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Cinematical
Rating: 3/4 --
Art School Confidential starts out as a great movie that eventually devolves into a pretty good one.
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Film Frenzy
It's a shame that the film's main impetus turns out to be focused on such a pedestrian and predictable plot.
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Film4
Rating: 4/5 --
Cynical and raunchy comedy for adults only.
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Common Sense Media
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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- Sales Rank: 13,054
- UPC: 760137150282
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