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Gus Van Sant

Director, Actor

 
Mala NocheMala Noche (1985) Recommended
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Low–budget granular drama and the first film made by the eclectic Mr Van Sant near the start of his influential career.It tells the tale of a…
Drugstore CowboyDrugstore Cowboy (1989) Aro Favourite
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham
A stylised yet vivid journey into the lives of a group of sympathetic, drug–addicted youths in the early '70s. A high point in the career…
My Own Private IdahoMy Own Private Idaho (1991)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, James Russo
Melancholic tale imbued with the director's stylistic flair stars Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix as a pair of young hustlers with opposing personal…
Even Cowgirls Get the BluesEven Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Uma Thurman, John Hurt, Sean Young
A joyously ropey adaptation of Tom Robbins beloved 1970s novel in which a big–thumbed hitch–hiker (Uma Thurman) eventually hooks up at a…
To Die ForTo Die For (1996) Aro Favourite
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix
A deft satire about ambition and the media is fashioned from the sensational true story of a woman who coaxed an impressionable schoolboy into…
Good Will HuntingGood Will Hunting (1997)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams
Toasted as the stars ascendant of New Hollywood, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck flaunt their writing/acting prowess in this affecting parable of how…
PsychoPsycho (1998)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore
Colour remake of Hitchcock's most famous film closely follows the original but never comes close to being anything other than a cheap gimmick. The…
Finding ForresterFinding Forrester (2000)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Sean Connery, Rob Brown, Anna Paquin
Dir. Van Sant reprises the outlines of his own GOOD WILL HUNTING, with Sean Connery nurturing the wayward talent of basketballing teenager Rob Brown.
GerryGerry (2002)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Casey Affleck, Matt Damon
A stark return to experimentalism for dir. Van Sant, in the form of a narrative about two friends, both named Gerry (Damon and Affleck), whose hiking…
ElephantElephant (2003) Recommended
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, Timothy Bottoms
A smoothly crafted, but troubling depiction of the Columbine High School massacre in which two disaffected teenagers planned and staged the multiple…
Last DaysLast Days (2005)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento
A questionable meditation on a besieged, drug–addled rock–star, clearly modelled on Kurt Cobain, as he inhabits a remote, decaying…
Paris, Je T'aimeParis, Je T'aime (Paris, I Love You) (2006) Recommended
Dir. Olivier Assayas, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi
A prestige line–up of actors and filmmakers converge in this grand anthology of love letters to the city of romance. With each vignette…
Paranoid ParkParanoid Park (2007)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Taylor Momsen
Gus Van Sant shoots Blake Nelson’s coming–of–age novella, about a young skateboarder’s complicity in the death of a security guard,…
Chacun Son CinemaChacun Son Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema) (2007) Recommended
Dir. Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August
35 auteurs convey the meaning of cinema in less than three minutes each, in this epic commission to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film…
MilkMilk (2008) Recommended
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin
Saying it proud but not too loud, this dramatized biopic of the first openly–elected gay official fittingly tributes the legacy of San…
RestlessRestless (2011)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase
Languid tween romance from dir. Gus Van Sant, about a terminally ill girl (Wasikowska) who falls in love with an eccentric boy with a compulsion for…
Promised LandPromised Land (2012)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski
Matt Damon plays a natural–gas representative who has the best interests of a small–town community at heart despite his company's…
Canyons, TheCanyons, The (2013)
Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Nolan Gerard Funk
Dir. Paul Schrader and writer Bret Easton Ellis collaborate on this seedy tale of independent film production, set in a washed out L.A. Lindsay Lohan…
Sea of Trees, TheSea of Trees, The (2015)
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, Ken Watanabe
Critically savaged misfire from Gus van Sant has a maudlin McConaughey as suicidal man who enters a forest in search of the perfect place to die, but…
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on FootDon't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018) Recommended
Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara
Gus Van Sant wrote and directed this drama based on the memoir of John Callahan, a gifted cartoonist from Portland who struggled with alcoholism and…

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