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Beautiful Losers (2008) is a English movie. Aaron Rose,Joshua Leonard has directed this movie. Julian Bennett Holmes,Thomas Campbell,Shepard Fairey,Jo Jackson are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2008. Beautiful Losers (2008) is considered one of the best Documentary,Music movie in India and around the world.
The greatest cultural accomplishments in history have never been the result of the brainstorms of marketing men, corporate focus groups, or any homogenized methods; they have always happened organically. More often than not, these manifestations have been the result of a few like-minded people coming together to create something new and original for no other purposethan a common love of doing it. In the 1990s, a loose-knit group of American artists and creators, many just out of their teens, began their careers in just such a way. Influenced by the popular underground youth subcultures of the day, such as skateboarding, graffiti, street fashion and independent music, artists like Shepard Fairey, Mark Gonzales, Spike Jonze, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Phil Frost, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, and Ed Templeton began to create art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Many had no formal training and almost no conception of the inner workings of the art world. They ...
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Inside look at how artists 'grow up'
I was fortunate to catch _Beautiful Losers_ at its cinematic debut in Tokyo accompanied by an introduction from Aaron Rose and several of the artists featured. The film is an inside look at these fascinating individuals and how their art took in each other's influences and moved from the streets into galleries into commercial agencies and back. It was an inspiring look at how 'creatives' are made. The discussion of just making stuff for your friends, having street art encapsulate the sacrifices and hopes of each attempt was a much more realistic way to think about nurturing artists as opposed to the '____ is a prodigy who (paints/makes movies/etc).' attitude that rules art reviews and the popular press today. These really were just kids who never stopped painting/making movies/etc. and mastered their crafts. As documentaries go, this one had fantastic footage of the artists across their evolution. The tribute to Margaret Kilgallen was especially touching. Unfortunately, it suffers from a somewhat wandering message and it was hard at times to piece together the relationships between the artists--which seemed to be at the core of what made them special. You get a sense that this community had fantastic chemistry that really brought out the best but Rose fails to show us how that really comes together. Some artists seem very close while some like Harmony Korine's seem just random and disconnected. The handling of the commercialization, the artists notions of 'success' and the role of Rose's gallery left me scratching my head. It was all interesting to hear, but I didn't get the point. Overall, this is worth watching for the great footage, chance to feel like you're right there as the artists show their personalities and a view inside how art should work.
I nearly puked
First of all, I HATE "vanity films". You know what they are - films made merely to promote this product or that person(s). Second, if you want to get on my bad side, try to validate and romanticize graffiti applied to others' private property. Third, I taught a long time, and it's been almost as long since I had to listen to so many self-righteous, self-impressed, self-centered, uneducated, immature idiots who want to believe their emotions validate their lack of intelligence. Their art efforts were shallow, and, of course, self-aggrandized (you can first spot these types by the time they spend practicing their signature instead of their art), and, are equally admired by a small peer audience of uneducated culture-babies who grew up on placebo intellectualism and Trix cereal. In an especially pathetic move to create associations, they include film maker Harmony Korine as though he is "one of them". (After all, it's not WHAT you know, it's WHO you know!) You'll love/hate their classically dimwitted, ironic rebellious insistence to be heroic "individuals" by their group pride in ALL skateboarding, looking alike, making like things, reveling in their refusal to become adults, and speaking with the same lack of language skills and education. You'll want to choke the "LIKE" and "YOU KNOW" right out of them. SPOILER ALERT: Oh, and just in case that doesn't bring you over, one of them dies and the others are given the chance to cash in on THAT emotion too complete with romantic music sprayed on the surface of their fallen comrade. I nearly puked. What a bunch of jerk-offs who can't keep their spray cans in their pants.
Such a Beautiful Film!
Beautiful Losers is such an inspirational film! After watching the film, it made me want to go out and use my creativity to create something great. The lives of the artists were very interesting, and each of them has had such a huge impact in the art world and pop culture. When I saw the movie, I wanted to watch it because I was interested in the subject matter, but my friend that I watched it with was not at all interested in art and artists, but she had an open mind and trusted my judgment. After the movie, she said that she really enjoyed it, and it was very moving. She even claimed that it was one of her favorite films that she has seen in a while. I think everybody can take something away from this film! It's put together so beautifully, and it's just so inspiring.
Slacker Art
Here is a wonderful little niche genre. Movies are essentially striving to art. Few qualify. Almost no one can manage the complex juggling act that it takes. It just involves too many people, too many risks, too many dependencies on happy accidents. But the fact that film CAN BE art is what underlies all film. What if you cannot make a film that has artistic merit? One solution is that you make a film about artists. The problem is that even if you branch away from film in search of a broader field, you run into the market effect. Art may exist all over, but unless if finds a hook that allows it to catch some market force to sweep it to you, you will never experience it. That means that market forces co- create art, and more particularly the many souls making decisions that are abstracted into this "force." That is a nuanced way of saying that in some respect we are at the mercy of some group we may not like. Here we are introduced to one of those groups. They believe themselves to be artists. Some critical mass of consumers buy the argument. One of them did the requisite dying for her art. All have suffered and sacrificed, as we see documented. I saw this intermingled with documentaries that exposed the corruption in how food is produced, how the food is literally killing us and what we made as this society. This fits, I believe. The tinkering at the edge that these small souls do could never matter to me. But being exposed does. Because it is not about what you accept, but what you choose not to that matters. So the film works on that level. And on another. Harmony Korine is one of this group, one who speaks engagingly. This is an unexpected and effective bridge between film and the sausage machine that makes film. It was welcome. I like this kid and his work. He wonders about geekiness, loneliness and technology the same way I did and possibly would even now. So there is a predetermined familiarity, an acceptance of soul when seeing him. Didn't like his friends though. Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
Now I live in a house in the burbs...
I can't recommend this film nearly as much as I could recommend Waste Land or Exit Through the Gift Shop, but Beautiful Losers does occasionally have it's moments of merit. The running story of support that each member of this wide artistic circle should be commended. Without the constant support system, this sliver of the art world would have come and gone without much notice at all. But really, that's mostly what I enjoyed about this film. I don't really care about self aggrandizement on such a large scale, especially when the people in question are ( with the exception of one artist) still very much alive and still very, very young. Most of the artists in the film are approaching their forties. These artists are also very lucky to be alive at this time. It appears that everyone was filming themselves, even before making their own art scene, so this documentary is rife with footage of every artist from young kids to adults dressed up as kids. Ho-hum...there's better films about artists and their respective scenes.