Topic: Reinaldo Arenas

Before Night Falls

Director Julian Schnabel 's award winning biopic Before Night Falls details the life of exiled AIDS for several years. Reinaldo Arenas Johnny Depp :
Before Night Falls was the second feature film from New York modern artist turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel, who had made his name with his 1996 directional debut, Basquiat, about the Manhattan graffiti artist who rose from homelessness to fame before sinking into ...

JORGE MARTÍN with ALESSANDRO CASSIN

1990 Reinaldo Arenas, the Cuban poet and novelist, dies of AIDS in New York City, still an outsider, just as he had been in his native Cuba.. 1993 Before Night Falls, Arenas's seething, life-teeming memoir, is published in the U.S ...

Hollywood, Texas

The most important and original Texas filmmaker to have emerged over the past decade does not hail from Texas. Yet Julian Schnabel spent nearly a decade living here, first in Brownsville, where his parents moved when he was fifteen, and later in ...