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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 position in society (underprivileged .. Read more

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  Van Sant lands top honour at Stockholm Film Festival

  • 01 Sep 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 (10). Created in 2004, the prize honours "visionaries in modern film". This year (10), festival bosses are hailing Van Sant's works as "a celebration of film art". His noted film credits include Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, Read more

  

  Milk

  • 19 Jan 2009

  Sean Penn as you’ve never seen him before! Certainly one of the actors of his generation, Penn gets in touch with his feminine side in Gus Van Sant’s powerful, moving biopic about the activist and San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk. Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, but was murdered soon afterwards. (No spoiler here – the movie gives us the outcome in the opening minutes.) An audiotape Milk records “just in case” Read more

  

  Connery to receive European honour

  • 13 Sep 2005

  Sir Sean Connery is to be honoured by the European Film Academy with their Lifetime Achievement Award. Connery will collect his award at the European Film Awards, which are due to take place on December 3rd in Berlin. In a statement, the European Film Academy said: "It is a great pleasure for the European Film Academy to present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Sir Sean Connery for this impressive dedication to the world of film. "Sir Sean Connery has not only famously embodied the... Read more

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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 ...

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