Pages tagged “gus van sant”

The 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)

We're looking at the Best of the Decade throughout the month of the November. Today's list is the 50 Best Movies from 2000 to 2009.  read more

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Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Write a Double-Suicide Movie

Gus Van Sant will join novelist and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis in writing a film for Lionsgate about the double suicides of New York artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan....  read more

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Van Sant Considering Jack Black, Woody Harrelson for Acid

For the role of writer Ken Kesey in the upcoming film adaptation of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, director Gus Van Sant had one person in mind. Unfortunately, that person was the late, Academy Award-winning actor Heath Ledger. ...  read more

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Oscar nominees announced: Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader and Benjamin Button amongst highlights

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Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took their anointed places and talk of a populist uprising was silenced with The Dark Knight largely snubbed as the Oscar nominations were announced this morning....  read more

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Oscar Buzz: Who's ahead in this year's key races?

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There's a surprisingly gargantuan Internet faction dedicated to predicting who will be up for film's most coveted prize, the Academy Award. Publications like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and New York Times all have Oscar blogs that obsessively trail the fluctuations in buzz amongst the year's top films. That's not to mention stand-alone sites like Awards Daily and In Contention, or well-known bloggers like Jeff Wells, Dave Poland and Anne Thompson. Even Roger Ebert has devoted a wealth of recent ink on the subject. But, the truth is, no matter how much someone knows, it's still...  read more

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Milk

Today, Harvey Milk is remembered as a local hero...  read more

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On Long Island, Memories of Harvey Milk Have Expired

The irony of Bay Shore Furriers and Leather Salon is that, while it’s the only building on the block that survived a fire six years ago, nobody seems to remember the lanky kid...  read more

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Fox Searchlight drinks Gus Van Sant's Kool-Aid

Director Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black must have made a good team on the upcoming political biopic Milk, because the two have already made a deal with Fox Searchlight to reunite....  read more

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James Franco, many more cast in Allen Ginsberg biopic

In the grand tradition of attractive Hollywood stars portraying iconic literary figures (think Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen, Joseph Fiennes as William Shakespeare, etc.), James Franco has been cast as groundbreaking beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg in the biopic Howl....  read more

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Paranoid Park

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Gus Van Sant's newest film bears his fingerprints.  read more

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