ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (no spoilers)
moviePig
ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL is a quasi-memoir of an art freshman at
Strathmore University (...a fictitious school, I assume, whose name
coincides with a well-known mfr. of artist's supplies). What's wrong
with the movie is that the memoir is near-schizophrenic. Its angle of
attack changes often enough to give you whiplash... repeatedly ranging
from profound to satirical to slapstick. Meanwhile, my choice was
between this and POSEIDON, which also illustrates what's good about
SCHOOL... that, ultimately, there was easily enough content to the
movie that I could label it imperfect (...unlike with, say, a typical
megabudget pillowcase full of cotton candy). Including two good leads,
and some excellent veteran cameos, there is enough reason to stay in
SCHOOL. Recommended.
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Sandro
edited for brevity's sake
>ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL is a quasi-memoir [...] Including two good leads,
>and some excellent veteran cameos, there is enough reason to stay in
>SCHOOL. Recommended.
Good to see someone liked it. It's not out yet in my neck of the woods,
but I've looked forward to anything Zwigoff has put out since Crumb
first infected its way into a cinema. I was curious to see where he'd
go after Bad Santa, and though it seems he went for such an
easy target (the pretentious egomaniacs of the art academic
crowd?) for his misanthropy, it's not a million miles away from
the milieu in which he generally works anyway. So, I'm keen to
see it.
Sandro - Because Bad Santa wasn't that great, and I don't
think we can solely blame the Weinsteins for taking it off
Zwigoff and changing the ending.
moviePig
High Art is indeed an 'easy target', at least in that no
special-interest groups will be fighting back... and maybe its
overripeness accounts for what I saw as some floundering by the script.
Still, though, I always felt there was a thinking adult behind the
movie (rather than a wunderkind or marketer) ...which goes a long way
for me.