fiasco the debut films of fellow artists David Salle (Search and Destroy) and Robert Longo (Johnny Mnemonic) were, it is fascinating to see what a compendium of Troubled Genius movie cliches he has turned out." Like several of the negative reviews, the review picked out for praise the acting of Jeffrey Wright as Jean-Michel Basquiat, saying "Basquiat's only genuine inspiration was casting Jeffrey Wright, who won a Tony for his work in Angels in America on the New York stage, as the artist. An actor whose talent is visible even in this standard role, Wright's ability creates more interest in Basquiat's fate than would otherwise exist." The reviews in the art press focused more on the relation of Schnabel as director to his portrayal of Schnabel as artist in the film, and on changes to the facts of Basquiat's life introduced by Schnabel to make a more accessible film. In Art in America, the art critic Brooks Adams wrote: Basquiat can be seen as a huge, lurking self-portrait of the artist-Schnabel, not Basquiat. So laden is the film with the innumerable coincidences of Basquiat and Schnabel's enthusiasms (among others, for pajamas and surfing) that the movie should be more appropriately called My Basquiat... To a remarkable degree, the movie succeeds, by dint of its authorial slant, in popularizing the myth of Basquiat as a young, gorgeous, doomed, yet ultimately transcendent black male artist, even as it extends and reinflates the myth of Schnabel as a protean, Picassoid white male painter... Yet for all one's apprehension about the very idea of Schnabel making such a film, Basquiat turns out to be a surprisingly good movie...It is also an art work. Music The following songs are in order of their appearance in the film. "Fairytale of New York" – The Pogues "Public Image" – Public Image Ltd. "Girlfriend" – The Modern Lovers "Suicide Mode" – Nicholas Marion Taylor "Suicide Hotline Mode" – Nicholas Marion Taylor "I'm Not in Love" – Toadies "Lust for Life" – Iggy Pop "The Nearness of You" – Keith Richards "Waiting on a Friend" – The Rolling Stones "Pixote Theme" – Electro Band "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" – Them "You Can't Be Funky (If You Haven't Got Soul)" – Bush Tetras "Flamenco Sketches" – Miles Davis "Ko-Ko" – Charlie Parker "White Lines" – Melle Mel (as GrandMaster Flash Melle Mel) "Beast of Burden" – The Rolling