Beautiful Losers

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Beautiful Losers

2008

1h 30m

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Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard document the lives and careers of young artists and designers who -- though unfamiliar with the workings of the traditional art world -- have had an impact on it.

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An insightful if fawning documentary that explores a group of 90s NYC artists.

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Peter Whittle

The Times (UK)

As you watch the movie wholeheartedly and uncritically celebrate the group's "nonconformist" ethos (shouldn't someone gently break it to them?), you can feel the energy being sucked out of you.

Rated: 1/5

Aug 11, 2009

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The Times (UK)

Like the art scene it documents, Beautiful Losers is chaotic, anarchic, rambling and populated by charismatic freaks with statement T-shirts, complicated haircuts and impossibly rare trainers.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 7, 2009

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Catherine Shoard

Guardian

You can't help but feel like a bit of an eye-rolling parent, wondering if a few of them might benefit from a proper job and a light slap.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 7, 2009

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Sarah Manvel

Cinemattraction

The whole ethos portrayed in this film seems to be of a tightly knit group, referencing and re-referencing each other ad infinitum.

Feb 10, 2019

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

A shamelessly self-promoting homage documentary to a like-minded group of rebel pop culture artists, who work together in a NYC collective but do independent work.

Rated: B-

May 25, 2013

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Matthew Turner

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Rated: 0/5

Jan 14, 2010

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Shioka O

Watched in 2022. I felt that street art/graffiti at that time was far more pure cultural movement than digital art and NFTs we have now that are more problematic. This documentation appears as a 00s nostalgia in my eyes and less sensational. Kinda sad that we have less human activity in art now.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

12/01/22

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Audience Member

I've watched this documentary many times.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Audience Member

Far more fashion than art, but it's not always entirely clear which will ultimately turn out to be which, so there's at least a little to think about. Nice enough, but not particularly insightful, and would surely have benefited from tighter editing.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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showed this to my oldest daughter last night, and I think it had the intended impact. it certainly worked on me - like overinflating your heart until it explodes.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Audience Member

An interesting capture of artists who refused to conform at a time when success practically demanded it.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Audience Member

Should be half as long. Wandering film tries way too hard to prove how "diy" these mostly middle-class, art school grads were - from what I can see they were like most art school grads, except lucky to have encountered someone who would become a cult film director and help along their careers. Lots of young artists move to big cities and do creative stuff and don't expect to get big. I'm not saying none of the art is any good, some of its great, but their stories aren't particularly compelling or "street", though they really want you to think they are. Many ended up in advertising, again, I don't blame them but it's hardly subversive or punk.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Synopsis

Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard document the lives and careers of young artists and designers who -- though unfamiliar with the workings of the traditional art world -- have had an impact on it.

Director: Aaron Rose, Joshua Leonard
Producer: Jon Barlow, Chris Green, Noah Khoshbin, Richard Lim
Screenwriter: Arty Nelson
Production Co: Perception Media, Blacklake Productions, Sidetrack Films
Genre: Documentary, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 5, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $56.4K
Runtime: 1h 30m

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