Sunday, May 16, 2010

Exit Through the Gift Shop

For those like this writer with an interest in the graffiti movement of the last couple of decades, let me recommend the movie, "Exit Through the Gift Shop," which is one of the funniest films - certainly the most entertaining documentary - I've seen in a long time. Ostensibly directed by the British street artist Banksy, the film describes the story of a bizarre man with an apparent obsessive compulsive disorder who inadvertently wound up filming the biggest names in graffiti on the planet, with a wildly unexpected, wholly American Horatio-Alger style twist at the end. Here's an extended trailer:

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