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DRUGSTORE COWBOY (SPEC ED)
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Matt Dillon gives the performance of his career as the drug-addicted criminal who masterminds a series of robberies in the Pacific Northwest. A harsh and decidedly unsentimental look at life on the fringe that deals honestly with the world of controlled substances. A top notch cast includes Kelly Lynch, James LeGros, Heather Graham, James Remar and William Burroughs as Father Tom, the junkie priest. Don't say "no" to this drug movie. Gus Van Sant---USA---1989---100 mins.
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ELEPHANT (GUS VAN SANT)
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With a cast of nonprofessional actors, largely improvised dialogue and voyeuristic and experimental camerawork, Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) looks into the dark side of the suburban American high school experience. Inspired by the tragic shootings at Columbine High School, Van Sant follows a cross-section of students on a seemingly normal school day that explodes into violence and terror when two classmates open fire in the school. Winner of the Palme d'Or and the Best Director Awards at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. "Startling and brilliant" (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Gus Van Sant---USA---2003---81 mins.
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EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES
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Uma Thurman, Rain Phoenix, Lorraine Bracco and William Hurt star in this adaptation of Tom Robbins' best-selling novel. Gus Van Sant, director of Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, brings his remarkable visual style to this high camp road movie set in the early 1970's, about a hitchhiker, free love and lesbian passion. Also features Angie Dickinson, Keanu Reeves, Roseanne Arnold, Crispin Glover, Sean Young and Buck Henry. Gus Van Sant---USA---1994---96 mins.
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FINDING FORRESTER
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Gus Van Sant revisits the "promising young writer" territory of his earlier success, Good Will Hunting, with this crowd-pleasing drama about a reclusive, J.D. Salinger-like author (Sean Connery in a role tailor-made for his gruff charm) who helps an inner-city basketball star (impressive newcomer Rob Brown) embrace his talent for the written word. Also starring F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, music star Busta Rhymes, and Michael Nouri. Gus Van Sant---USA---2000---136 mins.
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GERRY
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Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) returns to his experimental roots with this existential look at two men named Gerry (Casey Affleck and Matt Damon) who are hopelessly lost in the desert without food or water. Largely unscripted with sparse, improvised dialogue, the film follows the pair on their long walk through the barren terrain of Death Valley, beautifully and hypnotically filmed by Harris Savides. "...a marathon meditation on the puniness of man, humbled by the unblinking harshness of his surroundings. You get lost in the gigantic landscapes of the film and can't find your way out, just like the protagonists" (Sean Burns, Philadelphia Weekly). Gus Van Sant---USA---2002---103 mins.
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GOOD WILL HUNTING COLL.ED
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck starred in and won best original screenplay Oscars for this story about Will Hunting, a genius janitor (Damon) at MIT who likes to party and hang around with his neighborhood friends. When professor Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard, Breaking the Waves) offers a prize to the student who can answer a difficult math problem and discovers that Will correctly solved the problem anonymously on the blackboard, Lambeau tries to help Will get into school. Will's also hauled back from the brink of self-destruction by gifted counselor Sean McGuire (Robin Williams, in an Oscar-winning performance), Skylar (Minnie Driver), a Harvard Student who falls in love with Will, and Will's childhood friend, Chuckie (Affleck). Gus Van Sant---USA---1997---126 mins.
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LAST DAYS (GUS VAN SANT)
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Not-so-loosely based on the life and death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, Michael Pitt stars in this striking aesthetic achievement from director Gus Van Sant.
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MALA NOCHE
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Gus Van Sant adapts Walt Curtis' autobiographical novella into "a rhapsodic slacker noir pitched on the edge of physical and emotional darkness" (Nathan Lee, Village Voice). Set in Portland and primarily at night, the narrative concerns liquor store clerk/general outsider Walt (Tim Streeter) and his crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant (Doug Cooeyote). Van Sant's low-budget indie debut, shot on 16mm black-and-white stock, has a unexpectedly lush quality that gets amplified when casing the rain-drenched streets and seedy apartments that fill Mala Noche, or Bad Night. Gus Van Sant---USA---1985---78 mins.
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MILK (PENN WIDESCREEN)
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Gus Van Sant's triumphant, rather mainstream biopic about the life and assassination of the first openly gay man elected to major public office in America, Harvey Milk. Sean Penn leads a phenomenal cast that includes Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, Alison Pill, and a mustached James Franco. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, the film was especially zeitgeisty given that its critical and box-office accolades were diametrically countered by the success of Proposition 8, a 2008 referendum to ban same-sex marriage in Gus Van Sant---America---2008---128 mins.
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MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (2 DISCS)
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In this modern restructuring of the '60s road movie, River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves hustle their way through Seattle, Portland, Idaho and Rome on a quest for River's missing mother. With a meticulous, lyric style, the film combines sprawling landscapes, scenes of passionless sexuality and allusions to Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight as it addresses issues of love, family, politics and homosexuality. A work of great complexity and beauty from the director of Mala Noche and Drugstore Cowboy. Gus Van Sant---USA---1991---104 mins.
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PARANOID PARK
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Like the movies in Gus Van Sant's so-called "Death Trilogy" (Gerry, Elephant, Last Days), Paranoid Park finds the filmmaker returning to the territory tormented youth, but it also recalls his minimalist, low-budget early works. Roughly, the film concerns a Portland skate punk (Gabe Nevins) and his severely bottled emotional response to accidentally killing a security guard. What could be fraught with Hollywood melodrama is teased out in the nuanced interplay of nonlinear narration, music borrowed from Fellini, and lyrical imagery captured by DP Christopher Doyle (2046). Winner of the 60th Anniversary Prize at Cannes and the Independent Spirit Producers Award. Gus Van Sant---France/USA---2007---80 mins.
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PSYCHO (VAN SANT)
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Gus Van Sant's hotly debated creative "exercise"--a nearly shot-for-shot, color remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 thriller. Attacked by many as cinematic blasphemy, yet defended by some top critics as a significant exploration of form and content. Vince Vaughn steps into Anthony Perkins' shoes as the timid and troubled Norman Bates, while Anne Heche takes Janet Leigh's place in the Bates Motel shower. With Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen Gus Van Sant---USA---1998---104 mins.
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TO DIE FOR- KIDMAN
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Nicole Kidman stars as Suzanne Stone, a beautiful but vacuous weather girl whose real talents lie in manipulation, treachery, and self-promotion. Matt Dillon plays the unsuspecting husband who becomes the target of her murder plot. She doesn't plan to do it alone but rather enlists a love-struck teen-ager to act as assassin. It's the perfect scenario for launching her career as a celebrity. With Joaquin Phoenix and Illeana Douglas. Gus Van Sant---USA---1995---107 mins.
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