Gus Van Sant will be celebrated by the Venice Film Festival with its Campari Passion for Film Award. Van Sant is a key figure ...

Van Sant will receive the honor in Venice on Sept. 2 ahead of the out of competition world premiere of his new film Dead ...

One of Van Sant’s masterworks is “Elephant,” the 2003 drama loosely based on the mass shooting at Colorado’s Columbine High School.

View full size Scott GreenCinematographer Harris Savides filmed the made-in-Portland Gus Van Sant film, "Elephant," which starred Alex Frost, above." News came today that Savides has died, at age 55.

‘Elephant’ at 20: A Drama About a Mass Shooting Remains Chilling When Gus Van Sant made his experimental feature in response to the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, he said, he didn’t ...

The rash of school shootings in the late 1990s so intrigued Gus Van Sant that he made a movie on the subject, "Elephant," which opened over the weekend. But he won't presume to tell viewers what ...

Last Days is the latest from filmmaker Gus Van Sant, whose last film, Elephant, was loosely based on the Columbine shootings. In his new movie, Van Sant continues to mine reality for material: the ...

Both Van Sant and his amateur star took some convincing. “I was nervous. Even though I’d done ‘Elephant,’ this was different. This was the lead character,” Van Sant says.

At first glance, the subtitle of Katya Tylevich’s new Gus Van Sant biography— The Art of Making Movies —might suggest a lesson in technique from the director of My Own Private Idaho (1991).

Read some of our favorite highlights from Van Sant’s body of work. Gus was not the first choice to direct “Good Will Hunting” “We were doing ‘To Die For’ and Matt Damon came in to ...