Gus Van Sant

I thought Elephant was one of the most beautiful Movies ever made. The scenes with that red hoodie were amazing.

I could not get through more than like 20 minutes of Last Days, despite having been thoroughly into Elephant.

I really want to see it. I love Kim Gordon.

I too loved Elephant. Moonlight Sonata, so perfect.

This may or may not have to do with the Nothing preceding a looming shooting in a crowded, complex social environment being WAY more interesting than the predictable aimless depression preceding a looming suicide

Moonlight Sonata, so perfect.

Thank you for reminding me of the scene where the camera pans all the way around the room so, so slowly.

I just think of it as a mood piece. The beautiful colours the narcotically woozy camera movements. Those shots of the sky are gorgeous.

My ex-boss is scouting for the Milk film and I walked into one of my locals the other day and was surprised to see him there. Apparently they're going to shoot some in the Haight, too.

Michael can you let me know when they have an open call for extras? My wife really wants to be shell-shocked lesbian #12 or possibly emotional marcher #657.

Alex, I'm not that dialed in anymore and don't care to, but you might want to to call the Film Commission and they can ususally tell you who's doing extras casting though it's early days right now so I don't know.

Cool beans. I'll let her know. I'm looking forward to them closing the Diesel store in honor of this movie.

SFists, GVS wants you to be a '70s queer.

http://milkmarch.com/

On Monday night, February 4th and Friday night, February 8th, the feature film MILK (directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk) will be re-creating three 1970's marches through the Castro. We are looking for volunteers to appear in the these marches in the film. THERE ARE NO AUDITIONS. IF YOU SIGN-UP ON THIS SITE AND SHOW UP, YOU WILL BE USED.

And here's Josh Brolin as Dan White:

http://www.towleroad.com/2008/01/first-look-at-j.html

"I was under the impression that he’s agreed to direct an upcoming version of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe’s nonfiction account of the aforementioned Kesey’s LSD-fueled 1964 bus trip across the United States. As it turns out, Van Sant has yet to officially sign on to this project (he said he was still in the midst of negotiating the deal and writing the script).

from Chuck Klosterman's On the Road piece in the latest issue of The Believer.

can be found here

I don't know what Dargis & Hoberman are smoking, but Paranoid Park was barely better than Last Days. Plz don't put me in the head of a skateboarder for 84 minutes.

I was surprised to find myself fairly engrossed in "Paranoid Park" (but I think "Elephant" and "Last Days" are his two worst films).

Didn't mind being put in the head of skateboarder for 84 mins.

I still think the ENDLESS lingering shots of billowy-lipped, hairless, baby-faced skateboard boys can come at the expense of other concerns, though (GVS and Larry Clark in a battle to the finish).

Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park

I think Elephant was probably his best film, but barely got through Last Days. This one splits the difference. All are still preferable to Good Will Hunting.

Need to see Mala Noche.

Mala Noche is just Private Idaho w/out the greatness.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/starz-greenlights-drama-series-starring-kelsey-grammer-and-directed-by-gus-van-sant/

has anyone seen restless? i really want to go see but like I hear you're not meant to

i've sat through way too many gvs movies in order to realize i like the idea of this guy more than i like this guy's work.

Well, you just need to watch "To Die For" again

I like all his movies a lot - that is, after long reflection, my pretty uncomplicated take on gus van sant

nb I never saw good will hunting so I might not like that one.

if you also like all of robin williams' movies a lot then oh boy just you wait

restless trailer makes it look v bad

going to give this boss telly prog with which he's involved a go

aero do you like apples

wrt restless, i cant imagine what drew him to the material. has anyone seen/liked it?

he's done some bad stuff but also a bunch of really good stuff. i appreciate his jumping from artier movies to more mainstream movies and back. i was really really into "paranoid park" (probably posted about it on the above-linked thread) and to a lesser extent "last days" but still haven't watched "elephant."

otm. and Milk was a deserved "crossover" hit.

I was kind of determined to see Restless anyway, but the critics have managed to put me off.

Every time I see that title I think of a rewrite of that Corrs hit.

YOU LEAVE ME RESTLESS

James Franco, on Restless and other recent Van Sant:

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/11/10/the-star-crossed/

Also just read that VS directed the pilot episode of Boss.

wrt restless, i cant imagine what drew him to the material. has anyone seen/liked it?

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i just saw this & actually kinda really liked it? i think i would otm any critical takedown raised of it, because it's so cloying, almost entirely, in so many respects (overdone/cutesy/formulaic/sufjanwave) &c&c&c. & yet there are frequently parts that are quietly (rather than through the strength of the material), warmly affecting. there's a passage in which footage of the nagasaki a-bomb aftermath is accompanied by sensitive, sub-elliott smith, anonymous acoustic guitar musing, which does the work of going further than any absurdist criticism of what's terrible about touchy-feely modern teenage movies would feel compelled to go. & for all of that it was good. i feel like i ought to ps 'this movie is terrible', because it technically is, but that mattered less to me as its emotional charge deepened; as a film it kinda almost has the teenage naivete that teenagers in paranoid park are invested in (though is on another planet in terms of its accurate/thoughtful rendering of the teenagers), being so distant from a realism and so committed to a brief & romantic way of being.

i think it is meant as a young-adult thing for twilight fans, i guess, & there is something intriguing to me about GVS working in those confines.

links on the late Harris Savides:

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-harris-savides-1957-2012

I forgot how glowingly gutter-contrasty the b&w 16mm in Mala Noche. Also the chickenhawkish whiteboy clerk is preety plainly depicted as racist, tho he wouldn't cop to it (he bypassingly even mentions his "privilege" in 1984).

The teen who played his lust object was Native, not Mexican, and hence all his Spanish dialogue was dubbed.

My rewatch was inspired by this:

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/the-modern-breakthrough-of-mala-noche-628

this universally panned one, unveiled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQvC9V1eLsE

Looks fine with the sound off.

GERRY, an ambitious American independent film, premiered 15 years ago and was/is genuinely different.

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) July 7, 2017

always liked that one tbh

new movie DON'T WORRY, HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT out this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYWrgLTNKP4

has Joaquin P been in any of his films since To Die For?

nope

just looked JP's wiki to make sure, and am fucking shocked he is only 43

ok just watched the trailer, excellent use of John Lennon's "Isolation."

It's going to be at Berlin, and I'm going. So now I'm trying to catch up on his filmography.

Did anyone see what will probably be called the Logan Paul one henceforth?

did anyone see his new movie? I think it played here for a week tops

got ok reviews, looks middling but serviceable. maybe the studio (amazon) didn't back it because they're worried Van Sant would be me too'd soon ( he has a reputation)?