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Frost played one of the gunmen in Gus Van Sant’s unflinching look at adolescent life, “Elephant,” when he was only 15 years old. “The older I get, and the more I understand about shootings ...
The Swans" star Vito Schnabel at Tribeca, Van Sant looks back at decades of signature work. “In the next 45 minutes, we’re about to hear Gus speak more than he has in the last 40 years ...
Elephant (Fine Line), directed by Gus Van Sant, was inspired by the mass shootings at Columbine High School in April 1999: It’s an attempt to make sense of a senseless act, while at the same ...
And we find it, really, too fast." Gus Van Sant seems to have implicitly understood this, and that may be why Elephant still has such power. It doesn't rely on cheap tropes to milk emotions or ...
Matt Damon, John Krasinski and Gus Van Sant talk about their film “Promised Land” and reflect on past collaborations. Matt Damon, John Krasinski and Gus Van Sant talk about their film ...
The first 45 minutes of Gus Van Sant’s new film, “Elephant,” is self-assured, formally adroit, and profoundly illuminating. Exploring the Littleton, Colo., school massacre of 1999 ...
A longtime artist, 'Good Will Hunting' director Gus Van Sant talks features versus streaming ... the stifling suburban ennui of Elephant — everyday environments yielding a hidden beauty to ...
Last Days is the latest from filmmaker Gus Van Sant, who is no stranger to controversy. His last film, Elephant, was loosely based on the Columbine shootings; it sparked debate over fictionalizing ...
When Gus Van ... needs of the streaming companies versus the traditional studios have had an impact, and in a much more substantive way than just changing who puts out what. Van Sant has already ...
But his collaboration with Van Sant may have been his most fruitful. In addition to "Elephant" and "Restless," Savides filmed the Van Sant films, "Finding Forrester," "Gerry," "Last Days," and ...
“In the next 45 minutes, we’re about to hear Gus speak ... each other.” “Elephant,” about an inconceivable American tragedy, somehow struck the right note. One of Van Sant’s ...