Art School Confidential [Blu-ray]

Director: Terry Zwigoff Terry Zwigoff

Overview

Director Terry Zwigoff and writer Daniel Clowes team up again after their successful collaboration Ghost World to adapt another Clowes story for the big screen with Art School Confidential. The film stars Max Minghella as a freshman beginning at a well-respected art school. He learns he has neither the talent nor the temperament to succeed, but hatches a remarkable plan to become famous in the art-world when he becomes insanely jealous of the attention shown to another student he believes is not as good as himself. The story on which the film is loosely based appeared originally in Eightball #7 and has been reprinted in a variety of Clowes collections.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/06/2018
UPC:	0760137150282
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	R
Source:	Mvd Marquee Collect
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00
Sales rank:	28,063

Special Features

Making of Art School Confidential; Deleted scenes; Blooper reel; Sundance featurette; Original theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Max Minghella	Jerome
Sophia Myles	Audrey
Matt Keeslar	Jonah
John Malkovich	Professor Sandiford
Jim Broadbent	Jimmy
Anjelica Huston	Sophie
Joel David Moore	Bardo
Ethan Suplee	Vince
Adam Scott	Marvin Bushmiller
Marshall Bell	Lonny
Jack Ong	Professor Larry Okamura
Kate Moennig	Candace
Lauren Lee Smith	Beat Girl
Jeremy Guskin	Eno
Jeanette Brox	Shilo
Nick Swardson	Matthew
Monika Ramnath	Flower
Isaac Laskin	Kiss-Ass
Scoot McNairy	Army Jacket
Finneus Egan	Vegan
Shelly Cole	Filthy-Haired Girl
Jean St. James	Mom
Michael Shamus Wiles	Donald Baumgarten
Paul Collins	Professor David Zipkin
Ezra Buzzington	Leslie, Male Model
Kimi Reichenberg	Suburban Girl
Richard Bakalyan	Cranky Guard
Alex Ryan	Nympho
Travis Walck	Richard Natwick
Roxanne Hart	Mom Platz
Michael Lerner	Art Dealer
Marie L. Bain	Mrs. Helen Sandiford
Osman Soykut	Dad Hugh Platz
Katija Pevec	Cynthia Platz
Steve Buscemi	Broadway Bob D'Annunzio
Brian Turk	Cliffy, Cousin
Edith Jefferson	Doddering Aunt
Roxanne Day	Marie
Marc Vann	Kevin
Chris L. McKenna	Mikey
Jesse Flanagan	Hurst
Zach Maurer	Young Jerome
Charlie Talbert	Vince's Editor
John Bliss	Vince's Grandpa
Cristen Coppen	Preppy Girl
Alexandra Ryan	Nympho
David Kitay	Composer

Technical Credits

Daniel Clowes

Terry Zwigoff	Director
Daniel Clowes	Screenwriter,Producer
Lianne Halfon	Producer
John Malkovich	Producer
Russell Smith	Producer
Barbara A. Hall	Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Mark Davis	Key Grip
Cassandra Kulukundis	Casting
Chase Bailey	Executive Producer
Mark Weingarten	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Director Terry Zwigoff's second collaboration with graphic novelist Daniel Clowes isn't quite as magical as their earlier Ghost World, but the decidedly cynical Art School Confidential offers a surfeit of biting observations about the contemporary art scene. Max Minghella portrays Jerome Platz, a somewhat timid student whose has parlayed modest drawing ability into an admission to a distinguished, trendy art school. His enthusiasm is quickly tempered by a series of encounters with frustrated teachers, highly competitive classmates, and arrogant graduates. Of course, his real problem is that he's hopefully smitten with the notoriously fickle Audrey (Sophia Myles), a nude model who poses in his life-drawing class. Zwigoff ruthlessly skewers the art world's poseurs, whose chief representatives in this film are the pompous but marginally talented teacher played by John Malkovich and Adam Scott’s arrogant sell-out. The film's comedic tone recedes in the third act, but that's a welcome development in that it presages a totally unexpected denouement. No stranger to the eccentricities of artists and their loyal acolytes -- after all, he directed the documentary Crumb, which focused on the oddball icon of the underground-comics scene -- Zwigoff is the perfect director to take on an inflated subject practically begging to be popped.