Julian Schnabel Filmography

Born:: October 26, 1951 in Brooklyn, NY
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Musical Direction/Supervision, Set Designer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Raised in Texas, director Julian Schnabel began his career as an artist, holding his first solo exhibition in 1975 at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. Schnabel became a key figure in the Neo-expressionism artistic movement, utilizing an audacious style that was often described as raw...Read More

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Lou Reed's Berlin

Crew: Director, Set Designer

Actors: Lou Reed, Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis: Thirty-three years after his ambitious concept album {^Berlin} was pronounced dead on arrival, Lou Reed reteams with producers Bob Ezrin and Hal Willner to stage live performances of the now-classic release at concert venues all across the globe. The album, which was savaged by critics upon Read More

7/18/08
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Crew: Director, Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Read More

12/19/07
Sketches of Frank Gehry

Actors: Frank Gehry, Chuck Arnoldi, Sydney Pollack, Edward Ruscha, Mildred Friedman, Michael Ovitz, Philip Johnson, Craig Webb

Synopsis: Acclaimed film director Sydney Pollack took a five-year break from the realms of fiction to assemble a lovingly crafted tribute to longtime friend and acclaimed architect Frank Gehry in this documentary born from the sketches of its talented subject. A notoriously shy craftsman whose impressive Read More

5/12/06
Rockets Redglare!

Synopsis: Luis Fernandez de la Reguera directs the documentary Rockets Redglare!, a portrait of the New York personality from his early days around '50s hustlers to the East Village crowd of the '80s to his tragic death in 2001. Born Michael Morra in 1949, Rockets Redglare is a creative personality Read More

9/3/04
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

2004
Before Night Falls

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn

Synopsis: For his sophomore feature film effort, visual artist Julian Schnabel chronicles the life of one of Cuba's most charismatic literary voices, the late Reinaldo Arenas. Working with Arenas' friends and family, Schnabel recounts the author's impoverished rural upbringing and the intense love and Read More

2000
Basquiat

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani, David Bowie

Synopsis: Andy Warhol was a phenomenon who warrants a lot of explaining: a completely colorless mega-star celebrity, and a kind of LaBrea Tarpit for a vivid and talented collection of oddballs in the New York scene. He fostered their continued degeneration into weird lifestyles and heavy drug use; and at Read More

1996