Julian Schnabel – MRQE

In the Hand of Dante

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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

Berlin

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lou Reed recorded the album Berlin in 1973. It was a commercial failure. Over the next 33 years, he never performed the album live. For five nights in December 2006 at St. Ann’s Warehouse Brooklyn, Lou Reed performed his masterwork about love’s dark sisters: jealousy, rage and loss.

Miral

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind.

Before Night Falls

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro’s Cuba.

Basquiat

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.