{"id":6413,"date":"2011-03-06T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2011-03-06T22:11:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T06:11:35","slug":"downtown-81-a-film-starring-jean-michel-basquiat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/03\/06\/downtown-81-a-film-starring-jean-michel-basquiat\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown 81 &#8211; A Film Starring Jean Michel Basquiat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mature Content:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"420\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=16825313&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=f00068&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0&amp;group_id=\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=16825313&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=f00068&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0&amp;group_id=\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>This is a 1980 film starring American artist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Michel_Basquiat\">Jean Michel Basquiat<\/a>.  It follows him around and through the downtown New York art and music scene, presenting real people and events in a barely fictionalized semi-documentary.  It&#8217;s a fascinating look into the world of 1980 New York and the quickly rising star painter who was to pass away in 1988.  It&#8217;s a glimpse of a New York just a few years before it was bombed by The Gap.\u00a0 It was directed by Edo Bertoglio.<\/p>\n<p>You can stare straight into the open face of Basquiat and find more mystery than Banksy could conjure with a black velvet cloak, top hat and a mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mature Content: This is a 1980 film starring American artist Jean Michel Basquiat. It follows him around and through the downtown New York art and music scene, presenting real people and events in a barely fictionalized semi-documentary. It&#8217;s a fascinating look into the world of 1980 New York and the quickly rising star painter who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,114,1349,1562],"tags":[1709,1742,2511,1060],"class_list":["post-6413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-film","category-independent-film","category-underground-film-2","tag-1980s","tag-jean-michel-basquiat","tag-new-york","tag-street-art"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6423,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions\/6423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}