Art School Confidential (2006)

The United Artists Story (2000-2022) (81 movies items)

"Released on May 5, 2006 A co-production with Sony Pictures Classics. Produced in association with Mr. Mudd. "

DVD Pickups Winter/Spring 2023 (16 movies items)

"I'm a big fan of Terry Zwigoff and this is one movie of his I never got the chance to see. The Goodwill had a huge bin of 2/$1 DVDs so I grabbed this and Fatal Contact below."

300 & 99 From The 1st Decade Of The New Millennium (399 movies items)

"   Art School Confidential first appeared in the #7 issue of the Dan Clowes comicbook series Eightball, as a four page short story that was, of course, expanded to fit the length of the movie.   To be honest, I normally wouldn't give a thumbs-up to a film who's clunkiness in it's plot seems to distract from it's distinctive premise, but as someone who familiar with the style of storytelling that both both Clowes' and director Terry Zwigoff's, I think they still may it"

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"This was a pretty rough attempt to capture the essence of art school. Minghella, in the lead, does fine, it's the supporting cast that blows. Even the grand Malkovich had a tough time convincing us this was good... though he did manage to spew out a few comedic lines."

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"Professor Sandiford "

An average movie

“Since I really loved 'Ghost World', I was really eager to see this other collaboration involving Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes and I had some rather high expectations. Well, unfortunately, this movie turned out to be rather disappointing after all. I mean, you could see the damned thing definitely had some potential providing us with a compelling and gritty depiction of an Art school but, to be honest, it never really worked. Basically, I guess that the makers tried to play around with the idea that Art schools are in fact pretty much like any other schools, with exactly the same clichés, except that what you learn in Art school might be even more meaningless. Indeed, can you actually learn to become an artist while following some classes? How are you supposed to grade a work of Art? So” read more

My Movie Highlights of 2006 (68 movies items)

"A surprisingly good movie."

300 & 99 From The 1st Decade Of The New Millennium (399 movies items)

"   Art School Confidential first appeared in the #7 issue of the Dan Clowes comicbook series Eightball, as a four page short story that was, of course, expanded to fit the length of the movie.   To be honest, I normally wouldn't give a thumbs-up to a film who's clunkiness in it's plot seems to distract from it's distinctive premise, but as someone who familiar with the style of storytelling that both both Clowes' and director Terry Zwigoff's, I think they still may it"