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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396158849
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 16847
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Editorial Review:
Sony:
'Art School Confidential' follows talented young artist Jerome Platz (Max Minghella) as he escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art school. Here the boyish freshman's ambition is to become the world's greatest artist, like his hero Picasso. Unfortunately, the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an anything-goes art class. Neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts nor his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers. But Jerome does attract the attentions of his dream girl, the stunning and sophisticated Audrey (Sophia Myles), an artist's model and daughter of a celebrated artist. Rejecting the affectations of the local art scene, Audrey is drawn to Jerome's sincerity. When Audrey shifts her attention to Jonah (Matt Keeslar), a hunky painter who becomes the school's latest art star, Jerome is heartbroken. Desperate, he concocts a risky plan to make a name for himself and win her back.
Amazon.com:
Bitter, misanthropic, yet sometimes blisteringly funny, Art School Confidential is not a movie for everyone. Jerome (Max Minghella, Bee Season) goes to art school in the hopes of having his genuine ability recognized and cherished--but instead, finds his teachers to be self-obsessed has-beens, his peers jaded and floundering, and himself being investigated for a series of gruesome stranglings. He becomes obsessed with a lovely student named Audrey (Sophia Myles, Tristan and Isolde), but she's more interested in hunky Jonah (Matt Keeslar, Splendor), whose crude yet acclaimed paintings of cars and tanks make Jerome want to tear his own eyes out. The crime-thriller plot of Art School Confidential, however, is merely a contrivance to string together a series of caustic digs at the shallow, narcissistic, talentless hacks who go to art school in the vain hope of achieving fame, wealth, and sexual abundance with little or no effort. For most viewers, who want to think that people are largely well-intentioned and decent, this will seem snide and cruel; but for some viewers, who believe people are foolish and blinkered, Art School Confidential will seem like an oasis in the arid desert of lies and propaganda about the good side of human nature. If this is your movie, you know who you are, and I encourage you to seek it out as soon as possible. Directed by Terry Zwigoff (Bad Santa) and based on the work of cartoonist Dan Clowes; their previous collaboration was the much warmer Ghost World. Also featuring sharp turns from John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich), Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor), and Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge!). --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The blind leading the blind
I've just watched Art School Confidential, a 2006 film from Terry Zwigoff, maker of Crumb (1994) and Ghost World (2001), two of my favourite films. It gets wildly divergent responses from reviewers, usually a sign the film maker has hit his mark.
Watch Crumb if you want to know what's wrong with America, dissected by an extraordinarily intelligent, very articulate and devastatingly vitriolic analyst who has worked through his own childhood abuse, art celebrity and exploitation and dysfunctional ... Read More
Rating: - A very dark comedy indeed
Art School Confidential starts out like a million other "virgin at college" movies, but quickly hits its stride with a series of dead-on parodies of art school and art students. John Malkovitch is perfect in his role as the has-been art professor desperately trying to book a show to rekindle his reputation.
Then the film takes a very dark turn- our hero loses the girl, he's depressed, everything's going wrong- and just when you expect the usual turnaround- hero gets the girl, wins the prize- it ... Read More
Rating: - TERRY ZWIGOFF, OPUS 4
***1/2 2006. Co-produced by John Malkovich and directed by Terry Zwigoff. Jerome always knew he'll be an artist so it's no surprise if he starts his college years at New York City's Strathmore College. But there's a serial killer on the loose in the neighborhood. Great satire of the artistic underworld, ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL speaks about idealism and the distance between art and reality and describes in a very comic manner the life of the parasites who gravitate around the rare ones who finally make it. Recommended. ... Read More
Rating:  - An insult to Art Schools ...
This film was so bad, and so much of a let down, that I actually gave this DVD to a homeless man to "do what he liked" with because I couldn't sleep with the stink of it near my other movies, films and detritus.
This film had such build-up that a lot of people wanted to see it, but sadly it just did not deliver at all and left a lot of people wanting to "Angry Mob" on the screenwriter.
Several of my friends, who all went to and graduated from different Art Schools, all said the same thing after ... Read More
Rating: - Disappoinment
The primary reason I have picked this movie to watch is because John Malkovich and Anjelica Huston are in this film. While advertised as comedy, I would hardly label it as such. There are funny moments in this one, but I have a hard time labeling this film as comedy. While I can be sympathetic of young boys looking for true love, I just do not believe, that any young man who is yearning to become a next Picasso would go for stealing someone else's art, present it at the art show as their own -- all for love and recognition ... Read More
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