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Van Sant lands top honour at Stockholm Film Festival -
1 September 2010
-Director Gus Van Sant will be presented with a high honour at the Stockholm International Film Festival in November (10), to mark his achievements in cinema.-
-The Milk moviemaker is expected to accept the Visionary Award at the event, which runs from 17-28 November
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Van Sant to receive top honour at Stockholm Film Festival -
7 May 2010
-Oscar-nominated director Gus Van Sant will be the toast of the Stockholm Film Festival in Sweden after he was named the recipient of this year's (10) prestigious visionary award.-
-The star has been hailed as one of Hollywood's greatest U.S. filmmakers, with festival
Gus Van Sant - what members say
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A worthy remake 26 August 2004
review by hattorihanzo9 from Nottingham
Stunning! 11 January 2007
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A Modest Masterpiece 20 September 2004
Gus Van Sant - filmography
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Restless
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Schuyler Fisk, Jane Adams
Director: Gus Van Sant
Certificate: 
"Restless" is a powerful and emotional coming of age story, a remarkable film told with honesty and originality that will leave audiences moved. In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
 
57%
from 642 members
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
(2010)
Starring: David Cronenberg, Gus Van Sant, Peter Weller
Director: Yony Leyser
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Born the heir of the Burroughs' adding machine estate, William S. Burroughs struggled throughout his life with addiction, control systems and relationships. He was forced to deal with the tragedy of killing his wife and the repercussions of neglecting his son. His novel, "Naked Lunch," was one of ..read more »
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from 83 members
Not currently released
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Milk - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch
Director: Gus Van Sant
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White.
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from 5,234 members
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Milk
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch
Director: Gus Van Sant
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White.
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from 39,237 members
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Paranoid Park - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Jake Miller, Lauren McKinney, Taylor Momsen
Director: Gus Van Sant
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While Gus Van Sant's PARANOID PARK is in keeping with the atmospheric work of the films in his previous 'death trilogy' (GERRY, ELEPHANT, LAST DAYS), this time around he's working from a more conventional narrative to capture the awkwardness and pressures of adolescence. The result is a work of ..read more »
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from 573 members
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Paranoid Park
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Director Gus Van Sant (Elephant, Last Days) returns with the highly anticipated film Paranoid Park. This adaptation of Blake Nelson's novel, follows 16-year-old skateboarder Alex, who accidentally kills a security guard outside Paranoid Park, Portland's most famous skateboarding park. When he ..read more »
54%
from 4,729 members
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Last Days
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Blake is a rock star. Brilliant but beset by demons, he is slowly buckling under the weight of fame. Rarely emerging from the faded elegance of his mansion, he has cut himself off from the hangers-on, the parasites and users who once taunted his every waking moment. Hiding even from his friends, ..read more »
38%
from 7,733 members
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Elephant
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Alex Frost, John Robinson, Eric Deulen
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Gus Van Sant's drifty, eloquent, and effortlessly poignant ELEPHANT is loosely based on the massacre at Columbine High School. (On April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado two 17-year-old boys fired semi-automatic weapons on their high school classmates, killing 13, injuring 25, and then taking their ..read more »
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from 13,713 members
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Elephant - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Alex Frost, John Robinson, Eric Deulen
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Gus Van Sant's drifty, eloquent, and effortlessly poignant ELEPHANT is loosely based on the massacre at Columbine High School. (On April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado two 17-year-old boys fired semi-automatic weapons on their high school classmates, killing 13, injuring 25, and then taking their ..read more »
63%
from 501 members
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Gerry
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Matt Damon, Casey Affleck
Director: Gus Van Sant
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In Gus Van Sant's GERRY, a film more concerned with atmosphere and visual breadth than with story or plot, a frivolous hike through the desert evolves into an existential journey for two young men. The film features only two characters, both named Gerry and played by the film's co-creators Casey ..read more »
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from 2,192 members
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Finding Forrester
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Sean Connery, Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Director Gus Van Sant brings to the screen this moving story of a grizzled recluse and an inner-city teenager brought together by their shared passion for writing. Like Van Sant's Oscar-nominated GOOD WILL HUNTING, FINDING FORRESTER earnestly explores the struggles of a youthful genius whose ..read more »
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from 3,310 members
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Psycho
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Chad Everett, Robert Forster, Rance Howard
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Marion Crane is a Phoenix, Arizona working girl fed up with having to sneak away during lunch breaks to meet her lover, Sam Loomis, who cannot get married because most of his money goes towards alimony. One Friday, Marion's employer asks her to take $400,000 in cash to a local bank for deposit. ..read more »
52%
from 1,661 member
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Good Will Hunting - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Watch now: £2.49
A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts the attention of a professor who won't let him quit, a beautiful Harvard student who wants to save ..read more »
82%
from 610 members
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Good Will Hunting
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Director: Gus Van Sant
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts the attention of a professor who won't let him quit, a beautiful Harvard student who wants to save ..read more »
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from 23,149 members
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To Die For
(1995)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix
Director: Gus Van Sant
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A cable-TV weather girl who'll do anything to become a celebrity seduces a high school student and convinces him to kill her go-nowhere husband in this black comedy. Gus Van Sant's sly satire on America's tabloid mentality is loosely adapted from Joyce Maynard's chronicle of the real-life tale of ..read more »
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from 5,661 members
Not available for rental
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My Own Private Idaho
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Gus Van Sant's dreamtime riff on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts I and II features River Phoenix as Mike Waters, a narcoleptic male hustler who is first seen drifting on a stretch of highway in Idaho. Mike shifts from Seattle to Portland, where he has taken up with Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves), who is ..read more »
59%
from 8,327 members
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Drugstore Cowboy
(1989)
Starring: Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros
Director: Gus Van Sant
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The operative word in Drugstore Cowboy is drug. Matt Dillon plays the leader of a group of dopeheads who wander around the country robbing pharmacies to feed their habits. Dillon's chums include doltish James Le Gros and teen-age junkie Heather Graham; also along for the ride is Dillon's wife Kelly ..read more »
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from 4,373 members
Not currently released
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Mala Noche
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Tim Streeter, Bob Pitchlynn, Ray Monge
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Shot on a shoestring in 1985, this gently paced debut from Gus Van Sant (DRUGSTORE COWBOY) follows liquor-store cashier, Walt (Tim Streeter), in his one-sided affection for Johnny, a Mexican day labourer. Filmed in grainy black and white, MALA NOCHE (Spanish for 'bad night') arranges itself into a ..read more »
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from 177 members
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Gus Van Sant facts
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...ins. Although I knew the story, I was still gripped from start to finish.
So Gus Van Sant, stuff the critics. You have made a fan of the original a fan of yours.
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