Beautiful Losers

Name: Beautiful Losers
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: August 8, 2008
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 59

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Arthouse Films | Release Date: August 8, 2008

Summary: Beautiful Losers is a feature documentary film celebrating the independent and DIY spirit that unified a loose-knit group of American artists who emerged from the underground youth subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk rock, and hip-hop. This documentary tells the story of how a group of outsiders with little or no formal trainingBeautiful Losers is a feature documentary film celebrating the independent and DIY spirit that unified a loose-knit group of American artists who emerged from the underground youth subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk rock, and hip-hop. This documentary tells the story of how a group of outsiders with little or no formal training and almost no conception or interest of the inner workings of the art world ended up having an incredible impact on the worlds of art, fashion, music, film, and pop culture. (sidetrack Films)… Expand

Director: Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Runtime: 90 min

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Michael Hardy

For a film about a gaggle of slackers, Beautiful Losers is remarkably polished; with its quicksilver editing and fastidious mise-en-scene, it's as tight as the artists are slack. Read full review

Mark Bell

Beautiful Losers challenges and appreciates, is worthy and worthless; a piece of art in itself. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Names of the other artists - such as Barry McGee, Ed Templeton, Margaret Kilgallen and Jo Jackson - won't necessarily ring a bell, but they all have interesting stories to tell in this pleasant film, which sings the praises of nonconformity. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Fortunately, Rose's on-camera turns as a kind of "I-was-there" guide through the various incarnations of the Alleged Gallery and its starrier alumni, help give this freewheeling portrait a welcome heart. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

While not every artist Aaron Rose profiles in his documentary about one colorful corner of the 1990s New York Art scene is "beautiful," they're all "losers" and proud of it. Read full review

Aaron Hillis

Regardless of Rose's intentions, his underachieving airiness is both entertaining and perfectly fitting for the slacker ennui of his clique's rising years. Read full review

Alan G. Artner

On your deathbed you will want back the time it takes to see this one. Read full review

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