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Gus Van Sant begins production on Milk

By Alexander Brown on 3:03 PM on January 23, 2008

Paste loves Gus Van Sant. Seriously*, that dude owes us a round for all the publicity we give him. But his work is just that good and we can’t get enough of it, so news that he decided to travel south for the winter for his newest film Milk to start production in San Francisco has us excited. We hope that Fred Phelps is too busy to try and protest filming. Milk stars Sean Penn as San Francisco gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk who is known as being the first openly gay politician in California (some posit in...  read more

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Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park trailer hits the web

By Sean Gandert on 3:11 AM on January 10, 2008

Gus Van Sant's upcoming feature Paranoid Park has been completed for the better part of a year since it premiered last May at Cannes, where it won the 60th Anniversary Prize. Check out the film's trailer below: Once again, Sant's focusing on adolescence, while this time taking a look at skateboarding sub-culture. While the feature looks to continue the trends of his last few independent features, it also seems a little less mumblecore improvised and a little more polished. Probably a good change in his career, especially with Sant moving onto a more professional production on his next feature. Paranoid...  read more

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Last Days

By Fred Beldin on 12:00 AM on July 26, 2005

Gus Van Sant's Kurt Cobain-inspired meditation on the final hours of a gifted musician...  read more

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Elephant

By Paste Staff on 12:00 AM on December 1, 2003

Gus Van Sant’s latest film, Elephant, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes last spring despite vociferous denunciations from certain American critics. With its U.S. release, it’s certain to be one of the most talked-about and controversial films of the year. The controversy might be its selling point, but the movie has more than enough credibility to justify the hype. The story is an obvious adaptation of the Columbine shootings, despite its Portland, Oregon setting. The movie opens on the fateful morning, following various students as they wander the school’s grounds. One blond boy is late because his father was too...  read more

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