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	Gus van Sant: biography
		Gus van Sant was born in Louisville, Kentucky on July 24, 1953.
		Van Sant channeled his frustrations into the 1981 Alice in Hollywood, a film about a naive young actress who goes to Hollywood and abandons her ideals.
		Van Sant's next project, a 1994 adaptation of Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, was an excessive flop, both commercially and critically.
	www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Club/9542/gusbio.html (1462 words)

	Gus Van Sant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Since debuting in 1985 with Mala Noche, Van Sant has become one of the premiere bards of dysfunction, populating his films with a parade of hustlers, junkies, psychopathic weather girls, homicidal teens, and troubled geniuses.
		Van Sant's artistic leanings took him to the Rhode Island School of Design in 1970, where his classmates included David Byrne and other members of the Talking Heads.
		Van Sant channeled his frustrations into the 1981 Alice in Hollywood, a film about a naïve young actress who goes to Hollywood and abandons her ideals.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P115102 (1496 words)

	Oregon Blue Book: Notables- Gus Van Sant
		Gus Van Sant was born in Louisville, Kentucky on July 24, 1952.
		Van Sant's interest in art led him to enroll in the Rhode Island School of Design in 1970 where his classmates included David Byrne and other members of the rock music band Talking Heads.
		Van Sant moved back to Portland, Oregon in the late-1980s and worked with an independent production company in 1989 to make his next film, Drugstore Cowboy, about four drug addicts who rob pharmacies to support their habit.
	bluebook.state.or.us /notable/notvansant.htm (407 words)

	Sublime Anarchy in Gus Van Sant's Elephant
		Van Sant’s loose script is enacted by mostly non-professional actors and high-school students who kept their names and chose their own clothes for the film.
		Van Sant spells out all the recognisable themes of the high-school experience — the all-pervasive desire for social integration, and its cost (bulimia, bullying, etc.) — but, in recognising the limits of presenting what he finds in any conventional way, the director takes those familiar elements and elevates them to something far greater.
		Van Sant’s brand of naturalism eschews the classic narrative convention of order leading to climax and denouement (as Bordwell and Thompson suggest), and instead positions the viewer as self-conscious voyeur to the unfolding events, following characters around the school corridors in endless tracking shots.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/36/elephant.html (4831 words)

	Gus Van Sant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The first and only time I met Gus Van Sant -- in the deeply artificial atmosphere of a film junket for his 1995 fl comedy To Die For -- he was thoughtful, soft-spoken, guarded.
		Recorded by Van Sant in 1983 (six years before the film Drugstore Cowboy put him on the map), when he was living in Darien, Connecticut, 18 Songs About Golf is the earlier of the two.
		Gus Van Sant was recorded a couple years later, when he was living in Portland, and it's the more serious and confessional of the two discs.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/04/30/REX/GUS_VAN_SANT.html (453 words)

	Paul Fischer Interviews Gus Van Sant
		Gus van Sant began making films that were uniquely idiosyncratic before changing gears with a group of films that were much more Establishment than one would expect, from the likes of Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester and the critically maligned Psycho.
		Van Sant: The idea was from a news item about two guys who'd been lost and how one had killed the other.
		Van Sant: Because we had a friend who was telling us about it and because there's like 20 hours of sunlight in the daytime in June.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/GVanSant/GVanSant.html (1164 words)

	Quentin Tarantino and Gus Van Sant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Van Sant, whose second film, Drugstore Cowboy, stirred hopes of a resurgence of American auteurism, has not yet fulfilled the promise of that breakthrough.
		Whether Van Sant would be the person to bring this gritty but feel-good shaggy-dog story to life was another matter.
		Unlike Van Sant, though, Tarantino didn't have to wait for his actor to be successful in someone else's movie to get his own made.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/98/01/01/VAN_SANT_TARANTINO.html (1730 words)

	Gus Van Sant
		Graced with a style that could best be described as lyrically eccentric, Van Sant's early films have probed that other America; the one lying underneath the perfect country depicted in advertisements and commercials.
		Van Sant's characters say and do the unexpected; unlike those of many Hollywood movies, they are anything but predictable.
		Lesser known, yet no less significant are Van Sant's shorter autobiographical films of which he has made one each year since 1984 and into which he plans to assemble a cinematic diary.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=1738 (303 words)

	Salon \| Books: Gus Van Sant
		It's a generous gesture that reveals the respect Van Sant holds for his audiences -- and proves that in person, as with his films, he's much more interested in engaging people than he is in indulging them.
		Van Sant says that he intentionally left it ambiguous: "I was hoping that the viewer would project themselves into the film and decide for themselves who it was."
		After the book signing, Van Sant took a few minutes to talk with Salon about how Phoenix's death inspired his investigation into other dimensions (i.e., "the pink"), his fear of selling out and why he wants art to be more like food.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1997/10/24int.html (771 words)

	Elephant \| Cast & Crew \| Gus Van Sant
		Gus Van Sant has been winning over critics and audiences alike since bursting onto the scene with his widely acclaimed feature film Mala Noche (1985), which won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Independent/Experimental Film of 1987.
		Van Sant returned to his indie roots with the beautiful and austere Gerry (2002), which he wrote with the film’s stars Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.
		Van Sant has continued to make evocative short films, which have been winning awards at film festivals worldwide.
	www.elephantmovie.com /cast/vansant.html (469 words)

	Gus Van Sant @ Filmbug
		Van Sant's direction of Nicole Kidman in the fl comedy To Die For (1995) won a Golden Globe Award and was screened at the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals.
		Van Sant received a Best Director Academy Award nomination for Good Will Hunting (1997), which received a total of nine Academy Award nominations (including wins for Best Supporting Actor Robin Williams and Best Original Screenplay by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck).
		Van Sant followed with the controversial remake of a classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Psycho (1998), which was the first shot-for-shot recreation of a film.
	www.filmbug.com /db/26772 (528 words)

	Gus Van Sant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Van Sant is openly gay, and many of his movies include gay themes or characters.
		Mala Noche was made two years after Van Sant went to New York to work in an advertising agency; after saving 25,000 dollars during his tenure there, he was able to finance his tale of doomed love between a gay liquor store clerk and a Mexican immigrant.
		Approached by HBO and producer Diane Keaton to craft a fictional film based on the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, the director chose to shoot in his hometown of Portland, employing dozens of untrained teen actors to chronicle an "ordinary" high-school day—albeit one underlined by an unexpected tragedy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gus_Van_Sant (1739 words)

	WAC \| Calendar \| February 2003 \| Gus Van Sant: On The Road Again
		Gus Van Sant emerged as one of the most exciting talents of the late-'80s/early-'90s independent film scene, yet he has also been able to excel in Hollywood as a top director.
		Maker of music videos for David Bowie, Elton John, Tracy Chapman, and others, Van Sant continues to explore other media:a collection of his painting and photography was included in the volume 108 Portraits (1999); his first novel, Pink was published by Doubleday in 1997; and his songwriting debut, 8 Songs About Golf, appeared in 1998.
		It is Van Sant's return to the open road in his latest feature film, Gerry, and his reinvigorated aesthetic and narrative experimentation that shows he has not lost any of his original independent spirit.
	www.walkerart.org /archive/B/AC737116766EF3E26167.htm (354 words)

	Renaissance director (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But Van Sant, a true independent, has found a way to bring his outsider’s perspective with him into the mainstream.
		The director’s remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was a lesson in the art of appropriation, shifting the emphasis from shock to empathy with that quintessential loner, Norman Bates.
		For Van Sant, a director, writer, painter, photographer and musician whose experimental nature is married to a rigorous discipline acquired making commercials on Madison Avenue, the spark for a film comes in different forms.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=1100 (781 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Van Sant, Gus
		Born in Louisville, Kentucky on July 24, 1952, into a decidedly "mainstream," business-oriented family (his father is responsible for the classic "Mac" raincoat), Van Sant is the perfect example of the American upper-middle-class "fl sheep." As a child he evinced interest in artistic pursuits of all kinds and made a number of autobiographical super-8 films.
		Van Sant's penchant for making experimental shorts--My New Friend (1988) and Ken Death Gets Out of Jail (1987) being the most remarkable of them--even after his career entered the "mainstream" speaks volumes about his maverick nature.
		It is a hallmark of Van Sant's directorial style that he creates an atmosphere that encourages such collaboration.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/van_sant_g.html (685 words)

	Amazon.fr : Gus Van Sant: An Unauthorized Biography: Livres en anglais: James Robert Parish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Van Sant grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Connecticut and Portland, Ore., and attended Rhode Island School of Design.
		Drawing on published interviews with Van Sant, film reviews and interviews with his subject's family and friends, Parish charts Van Sant's life in particulars ranging from the mundane (his home address while growing up) to the spicy (rumors that he was sexually interested in River Phoenix while shooting My Own Private Idaho).
		Parish's writing clearly reflects Van Sant's nonconformist inspirations and determination to live and work outside of Hollywood's perimeters by offering the reader a voyeuristic familiarity with Van Sant's professional and personal life from birth to the present.
	www.amazon.fr /Gus-Van-Sant-Unauthorized-Biography/dp/1560253371 (543 words)

	Experiment in the desert \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Van Sant says it represents a change of course in his career.
		Before "Finding Forrester," for example, Van Sant was attached to a number of smaller, unconventional projects - including an adaptation of J.T. Leroy's cult novel "Sarah" and a biography of controversial cartoonist John Callahan, which never found proper financing.
		Van Sant drew on the influence of experimental filmmakers from his younger days, like Stan Brakhage and Chantal Akerman, as well as contemporary Hungarian director Béla Tarr.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0214/p16s02-almo.html (970 words)

	JR.com: VAN SANT, GUS in Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gus Van Sant's drifty, eloquent, and effortlessly poignant ELEPHANT is loosely based on the massacre at Columbine High School.
		Director Gus Van Sant brings to the screen this moving story of a grizzled recluse and an inner-city teenager brought together by their...
		In Gus Van Sant's GERRY, a film more concerned with atmosphere and visual breadth than with story or plot, a frivolous hike through the...
	www.jr.com /xs-van-sant-gus-in-movies--cp!t;nn!2046748.html (435 words)

	Gus Van Sant News
		Filmmaker Gus Van Sant needs hundreds of teenagers between 14 and 19-years-old to work as paid extras in his movie Paranoid Park, which will be filmed in Portland starting this month.
		This cinematographer is best-known for his association with childhood friend writer and director Gus Van Sant, though in recent years he has successfully worked with other directors as well.
		Oregon filmmaker Gus Van Sant is hold open casting calls next week for actors between the ages of 14 and 18.
	www.topix.net /who/gus-van-sant (697 words)

	Gerald Peary - interviews - Gus Van Sant
		Gus Van Sant doesn't know, he wasn't there, and he's not going to speculate, making up Freudian motivations in the usual way of leaden Hollywood bios.
		Van Sant had started this project as a more standard screen biography called Kurt.
		Michael Pitt, among the actors at the Cannes conference, endorsed Van Sant's hands-off on motivation.
	www.geraldpeary.com /interviews/stuv/vansant_3.html (713 words)

	Director Gus Van Sant imagines Cobain's demise
		The director says his interpretation of the days leading up to Cobain's death at his Seattle home came from his imagination, which is why the film isn't a biopic of the musician and why its fictional protagonist is named Blake.
		This project has long fascinated Van Sant, who moved to Portland 20 years ago and has made the Northwest his home.
		Van Sant: There was this idea to do a biopic, like "The Doors," that would tell Kurt's story and maybe the Kurt and Courtney relationship and the band, and they would be arguing over their recording of "Nevermind" or arguing with (album producer) Butch Vig.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/233328_gus21.html (1236 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| Gus Van Sant interview for "Gerry" (2003)
		Gus Van Sant returns to his off-the-wall indie roots with experimental, existential 'Gerry'
		Gus Van Sant has gotten used to being misunderstood.
		After making another, more successful big studio picture ("Finding Forrester"), Van Sant has returned to his roots with a vengeance, directing the distinctively intrepid "Gerry," an existential film of very long takes and very little dialogue about nothing more than two buddies getting lost -- very lost -- in the desert.
	www.splicedonline.com /03features/gvansant.html (2076 words)

	Gerald Peary - interviews - Gus Van Sant - Elephant
		Van Sant: "The origin of the project was way back, when Columbine was happening.
		Van Sant: "I wasn't thinking of playing to an audience of TV viewers, to someone switching from HBO to West Wing.
		When I talked with Van Sant at the Toronto Fest, he confided one major influence on Elephant which he certainly hadn't mentioned at Cannes.
	www.geraldpeary.com /interviews/stuv/van-sant-elephant.html (898 words)

	AfterElton.com - Gus Van Sant on His Last Days
		But, according to Van Sant, there is no need for one.
		Although Van Sant and Cobain met only once at Cobain's manager's house in Los Angeles when the director was out fund-raising to battle "No On 4," a 1992, Northwestern anti-gay proposition which mandated that all gay schoolteachers and state workers stay in the closet, the encounter would leave a lasting impression on the director.
		Although there are striking similarities between Blake’s character and Cobain, Van Sant wrote him vaguely--to the extent that he can be any troubled artist on the verge of death, including Van Sant favorite River Phoenix, who died of a lethal mixture of cocaine and heroine the year before in 1993.
	www.afterelton.com /movies/2005/7/gusvansant.html (528 words)

	Gus's World of Kurt : Radar Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gus Van Sant, habitual chronicler of handsome addicts, tackles Kurt Cobain’s suicide in Last Days.
		Van Sant, who was nominated for an Oscar for 1997’s remarkably conventional Good Will Hunting, did spend a few years proving he can swim in the movie mainstream with the best of them.
		GUS VAN SANT: I guess part of my reaction is: Here’s a subject that people already know about.
	www.radaronline.com /web-only/showbiz/2005/07/guss-world-of-kurt.php (698 words)

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