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Julian Schnabel
Director 74 years old

Julian Schnabel

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Julian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates. Schnabel directed Before Night Falls, which became Javier Bardem's breakthrough... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

7 titles
In the Hand of Dante

In the Hand of Dante

Julian Schnabel 2026 2h 33m

A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken by Nick Tosches after he's asked to verify its authenticity.

At Eternity's Gate

At Eternity's Gate

Julian Schnabel 2018 1h 51m 6.0

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

Miral

Miral

Julian Schnabel 2010 1h 52m 6.5

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

Le scaphandre et le papillon

Le scaphandre et le papillon

Julian Schnabel 2007 1h 52m 8.2

The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.

Berlin

Berlin

Julian Schnabel 2007 1h 21m 9.0

Lou Reed's 2006 live concert performance of his 1973 concept album "Berlin", filmed over five nights at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York.

Before Night Falls

Before Night Falls

Julian Schnabel 2000 2h 14m 7.6

The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.

Basquiat

Basquiat

Julian Schnabel 1996 1h 47m 7.7

Director Julian Schnabel illustrates the portrait of the his friend, the first Afro-American Pop Art artist Jean Michel Basquiat who unfortunately died at a young age and just as he was beginning to make a name for himself in the art world. Along side the biography of Basquiat are the artists and the art scene from the early 1980’s New York.

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