Gus Van Sant
Director, Actor
- Mala Noche (1985)
- 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 Cowboy (1989)
- 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 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 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 For (1996)
- 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 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…
- Psycho (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 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.
- Gerry (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…
- Elephant (2003)
- 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 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'aime (Paris, I Love You) (2006)
- 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 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 Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema) (2007)
- 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…
- Milk (2008)
- 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…
- Restless (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 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, 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, 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 Foot (2018)
- 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…