Cinemas daring Mr Indie |
Is Gus Van Sant the most consistently adventurous director in America? I ask because his 1985 debut (Mala Noche) and his most recent film (Paranoid Park) are released this week on DVD, and together th...
Posted by Gus Van Sant on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:56:00 PST |
Soundtrack of their lives |
In the past few weeks, I’m seeing skaters with a new glow in my eyes a kind of sparkle of the special as they slalom down Sunset sidewalks, click-clacking over cracks and jumping curbs. It&r...
Posted by Gus Van Sant on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:42:00 PST |
10 Questions |
1 Does art make a difference?It makes a difference in people’s daily perceptions. Art takes so many forms. A politician running for office is a work of art.2 Should politics and art mix?If you g...
Posted by Gus Van Sant on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:57:00 PST |
Board Game |
When you look at a teenage boy with no expression, his clothes drooping, his long hair in his eyes, perhaps toting a skateboard, you might construe his blank affect as a sign of the blankness withina...
Posted by Gus Van Sant on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:50:00 PST |
Failed Attempt to Kill Ben Affleck |
Director Gus Van Sant’s films have traversed the cinematic map, from the expressionistic gay-desire drama Mala Noche (out on DVD now) to Hollywood fare like Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrest...
Posted by Gus Van Sant on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:45:00 PST |
Teen Stories : a review |
One of the great joys of filmgoing these last few years has been the career renaissance of Gus Van Sant, an indie auteur who went Hollywood in the 1990s with films like Good Will Hunting, only to retu...
Posted by Gus Van Sant on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:39:00 PST |
GVS soliloquizes the life of a skateboarder |
Great movies stay with you in the oddest ways. In the days after I first saw Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park, I was preternaturally attuned to the sound of skateboards dragging the street outside m...
Posted by Gus Van Sant on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:19:00 PST |
disaffected youth and shoestring budgets |
The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant’s masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film’s narrative structure, it also reflects the arc of its maker’s career. Few direc...
Posted by Gus Van Sant on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:13:00 PST |
Gabe Nevins shines in Paranoid Park |
LIKE the hero of Avril Lavigne’s lament, the story of Gabe Nevins begins when he’s just a skater boy.And although he’s not quite a superstar yet, he’s at least taking a step in...
Posted by Gus Van Sant on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:10:00 PST |
an INTERVIEW experience |
A GUS VAN SANT EXPERIENCE By STEPHEN MOOALLEMA PORTRAIT OF TEEN LIFE THAT'S NO WALK IN THE PARKGus Van Sant's latest film, Paranoid Park, tells the story of a 15-year-old skater named Alex, played by ...
Posted by Gus Van Sant on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:20:00 PST |
