come away with a feeling for the man whose brief career is a textbook example of a flame burning too bright to last." The Artforum wrote: "The movie gives a sense of how driven he was, how it seemed as if he aimed, by sheer volume, to assure himself a place in the pantheon of twentieth-century painters, when in fact he achieved that position by virtue of a necessarily smaller number of masterpieces, produced in the early and late stages of his heartbreakingly short career." References External links Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child site for Independent Lens on PBS 2010 films American documentary films Documentary films about painters Films directed by Tamra Davis 2010 documentary films Jean-Michel Basquiat 2010s English-language films 2010s American films