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  • Psycho
  • Psycho review by from Kent
    Rated - 5 stars A worthy remake 26 August 2004
    ...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. ...  
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Good Will Hunting review by hattorihanzo9 from Nottingham
    Rated - 5 stars Stunning! 11 January 2007
    ...articularly Robin Williams! Highly enjoyable, emotional film from the brilliant Gus Van Sant. ...  
  • To Die For
  • To Die For review by from London
    Rated - 4 stars A Modest Masterpiece 20 September 2004
    ...well-crafted and canny. Rent it for the performances and because it's arguably Gus Van Sant's finest, most accessible and most memorable hour. Also - the glimpse of what ...  

Gus Van Sant - filmography


  • Milk on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Josh Brolin,  Emile Hirsch
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 14,162 members
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  • Milk - BLU-RAY Version (2008)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Josh Brolin,  Emile Hirsch
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 1,464 member
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  • Paranoid Park on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Gabe Nevins,  Daniel Liu,  Taylor Momsen
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 4,027 members
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  • Last Days on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Michael Pitt,  Lukas Haas,  Asia Argento
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 7,320 members
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  • Elephant - BLU-RAY Version (2003)
    Starring: Alex Frost,  John Robinson,  Eric Deulen
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 119 members
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  • Elephant on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Alex Frost,  John Robinson,  Eric Deulen
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 12,533 members
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  • Gerry on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Matt Damon,  Casey Affleck
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,803 member
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  • Finding Forrester on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Anna Paquin,  F. Murray Abraham
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,630 members
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  • Psycho on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Vince Vaughn,  Julianne Moore,  Viggo Mortensen
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,291 member
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  • Good Will Hunting on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Matt Damon,  Ben Affleck
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 19,179 members
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  • To Die For (1995)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Matt Dillon,  Joaquin Phoenix
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,468 members
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  • Drugstore Cowboy on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Matt Dillon,  Kelly Lynch,  James Le Gros
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Being a junkie is a full-time job for Bob (Matt Dillon), who leads his wife (Kelly Lynch) and another addicted couple (James LeGros and Heather Graham) on a reckless spree of drugstore robberies. When he has a brush with death, Bob realises he must leave both his addiction and his wife if he wants ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,837 members
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  • Mala Noche on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Tim Streeter,  Bob Pitchlynn,  Ray Monge
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 119 members
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Gus Van Sant facts

5 most recent films

Milk - 4.0 stars
Milk - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Paranoid Park - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
Paranoid Park - 2.5 stars
Last Days - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Milk - 4.0 stars
Milk - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Good Will Hunting - 3.5 stars
Finding Forrester - 3.5 stars
Drugstore Cowboy - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

To Die For - 3.0 stars
Last Days - 2.0 stars
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues - 2.5 stars
Paranoid Park - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
Gerry - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Casey Affleck - 5 times - show films
Matt Dillon - 4 times - show films
Joaquin Phoenix - 3 times - show films
Nicole Kidman - 3 times - show films
Alison Pill - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Litten - 1 times - show films