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Julian Schnabel

February 2024

  • Martin Scorsese.

    Martin Scorsese takes on ‘intense’ acting role in Julian Schnabel Dante drama

    The acclaimed director has restarted his sporadic on-screen career with a small but ‘extraordinary’ performance

September 2023

  • ‘Tom Waits called and said they were great’ … Schnabel with his new work at Pace gallery in New York.

    ‘You only spent 10 minutes looking at my paintings?’ Superstar artist (and terrifying interviewee) Julian Schnabel

    As the irascible New Yorker unveils his new velvet paintings, he talks about global disasters, sending Trump a resignation speech via Ivanka – and teaching Johnny Depp how to paint

March 2020

  • Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal

    Max von Sydow: an aristocrat of cinema who made me weep

    From his fateful game of chess to a moving turn in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Von Sydow was the last standard bearer of Bergman’s high-minded movie idiom

April 2019

  • Julian Schnabel Portraits<br>Julian Schnabel at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association press conference for “At Eternity’s Gate” at the Four Seasons Hotel on November 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Yoram Kahana/Shooting Star/Sipa USA) *** NO TABLOID PUBLICATIONS IN THE USA ***

    Julian Schnabel: ‘Why can’t a white person tell the story of a black person? Everyone is pink inside’

    The divisive director and artist on the irrelevance of the Oscars, why facts weren’t important in his new biopic of Vincent Van Gogh and being beyond criticism

March 2019

  • Willem Dafoe (Vincent Van Gogh) in Julian Schnabel’s AT ETERNITY’S GATE

    At Eternity’s Gate review – Van Gogh biopic fades to grey

    A colourless rendition of the painter’s last years

December 2018

  • Picasso And Bardot<br>Artist Pablo Picasso in his studio in Vallauris with actress Brigitte Bardot during the 1956 International Cannes Film Festival. (Photo by Jerome Brierre/RDA/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman review – great art and monstrous selfishness

    This exhilarating Costa-shortlisted novel about a son in thrall to his painter father skewers the hyperbole and hypocrisies of the art world

September 2018

  • At Eternity’s Gate starring Willem Dafoe. Film still, directed by Julian Schnabel

    At Eternity's Gate review – Willem Dafoe shines in Julian Schnabel's portrait of Van Gogh

    Schnabel’s biopic frames the last years of the artist’s troubled life admirably, highlighting his fiercely painful friendship with Gauguin

May 2018

  •  Self Portrait in Crouching Position (1913) by Egon Schiele, on show at Tate Liverpool.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Incendiary Schiele, swaggering Schnabel and dynamic Dean – the week in art

    Egon hits Merseyside, Julian reveals some splashy daubs and Phyllida Barlow celebrates 10 glorious years of Jupiter Artland sculpture park

December 2016

  • Madonna in Malawi in 2013, at one of the schools her foundation has helped build.

    Madonna's art collection and more on sale at starry benefit

    As well as artworks and intimate photographs, auction items include a week in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Palm Springs villa and a poker game with Edward Norton and Jonah Hill

October 2016

  • Jonathan Jones

    David Bowie's sombre art collection needs more space oddities

    Jonathan Jones
    Aside from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Marcel Duchamp, there’s little provocation or pop art brashness in David Bowie’s art collection – instead he’s weirdly fascinated in 20th-century British painting

September 2016

  • Mathieu Amalric: ‘The most precious thing I learned is how to be in the soul of a film.’

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Mathieu Amalric: ‘Cinema has a way of transforming itself’

    The French star on playing a Bond villain, learning from Spielberg and calling the shots in his erotic thriller The Blue Room

May 2014

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    Julian Schnabel: Every Angel Has a Dark Side review – colossally bad

    Global art superstar Julian Schnabel's first UK show in 15 years is a fright, says Laura Cumming

December 2013

  • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

    Top 10...
    Top 10 biopics

    Cinema has always liked telling a good life story, and all kinds of biography – from the humblest to the starriest – have been given a filmic going-over. The Guardian and Observer's critics pick the 10 best in a very crowded field

July 2013

  • Julian Schnabel, artist and filmmaker

    A look back
    From the Observer archive, 11 July 1982: Julian Schnabel's show is a triumph for the marketing men

    William Feaver remains unmoved by an overhyped show at the Tate by the latest star to emerge from the New York art scene

April 2012

  • Lou Reed

    Curzon on demand
    Curzon on Demand: Lou Reed's Berlin

    Julian Schnabel's film of a 2006 performance of Lou Reed's 10-song tragedy captures all the greatness of this bleak and beautiful album

March 2011

  • Film still from Miral (2010)

    Israel condemns screening of film about Palestinian journalist at UN HQ

    Decision to screen Julian Schnabel's Miral at United Nations headquarters attacked as 'politicised'

December 2010

  • miral

    Miral — review

    Julian Schnabel's film covering four decades of Palestinian history is disappointingly disjointed, finds Philip French
  • MIRAL

    Miral – review

    Freida Pinto looks uneasy in a muddled movie by Julian Schnabel, director of the outstanding Diving Bell and the Butterfly. By Peter Bradshaw
  • Gareth Edwards

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly meets Gareth Edwards, the man behind Monsters

    Cinematic one-man band Gareth Edwards talks about writing, directing and animating his debut feature, Monsters. Plus, we host a panel discussion on the future of UK film funding

October 2010

  • Julian Schnabel

    Julian Schnabel: Taking the flak

    His last film was Oscar nominated – but his latest, Miral, has been panned. So what went wrong? Director Julian Schnabel talks to Steve Rose

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