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Restless

Restless

Sweet romantic drama from Gus Van Sant, starring Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper

17 Oct 2011

(12A) 95min Gus Van Sant’s unpredictable career has run the gamut from mainstream sentimentality (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester) to experimental arthouse angst (Gerry, Last Days). Restless falls softly between these extremes as it offers a…

Edinburgh International Film Festival curators revealed

Edinburgh International Film Festival curators revealed

Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Clint Mansell and more are confirmed - but what will they do at EIFF?

2 Mar 2011

The EIFF hopes to screen You Are Not I, the film Sara Driver made the year after she began working on partner Jim Jarmusch’s films in 1980. Given the cool aesthetic of their collaborations, less is more might inform their curatorial choices. A new one…

Milk

Milk

22 Jan 2009

BIOPIC Gus Van Sant’s fairly conventional biopic of the first openly gay elected politician in the United States succeeds in overcoming genre limitations to create a powerful, compassionate film that’s up there with the director’s best work. We…

Paranoid Park

Profile - Gus Van Sant

24 Apr 2008

PROFILE Suzanne Black considers the work of one of Queer cinema’s great auteurs as two of his key films are released on DVD Gus Van Sant is one of a handful of directors to have crossed from arthouse credibility to mainstream pennies and back again.

Paranoid Park

Paranoid Park

(12A) 85min

13 Dec 2007

With this freewheeling adaptation of Blake Nelson’s young adult novel, Gus Van Sant returns to the territory he mined successfully in 2003’s Elephant. Where that film examined teenage behaviour through the extreme event of high school shootings…

Paranoid Park

Paranoid Park

16 Aug 2007

Using Blake Nelson’s novel as inspiration Paranoid Park is a cross between Memento, Brick and The Outsiders. Gus Van Sant pushes the boundaries of the time-jumping narrative he essayed in Elephant to tell this pulp tale of a high school kid who gets…

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