Gus was not the first choice to direct ... somehow struck the right note. One of Van Sant’s masterworks is “Elephant,” the 2003 drama loosely based on the mass shooting at Colorado ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I first interviewed Gus Van Sant, he had just finished editing his feature Gerry ... After Gerry, Van Sant might have returned to another big Hollywood star vehicle. His new feature, Elephant, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elephant’s general subject matter is the ... Filmed in an Oregon high school, Gus Van Sant’s work follows several students whose paths cross on a fateful and tragic day. The film considers ...

Gus Van Sant: It came from a book by Blake ... some of the themes and filmmaking approach you were using in “Elephant”? Van Sant: It’s similar to “Elephant” in that it’s high schoolers ...

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 ...