Gus Van Sant

Promised Land Pitches a Hard-Sell

For Matt Damon and company, the message is the message.

FrackNation Creator Phelim McAleer Fibs About Parker County's Flaming Hose Case

Fracking is finally getting the Hollywood treatment. Promised Land, an anti-fracking film conceptualized by The Office's John Krasinski, co-written by Dave Eggers, starring Matt Damon and Hal Holbrook, and directed by Gus Van Sant (Milk, Good Will Hunting), is set in a hard-luck Pennsylvania farming ... More >>

Columbine, Hollywood, and the National Obsession That Never Ends

Thirteen years and a hundred school shootings later, why is Hollywood still obsessed with this one?

Tracks of My Tears

Two-Time Oscar-Winner Once Made Nutty Short Film About Dallas Sanitation Worker

A shot from the 1974 short film Big D​I was looking for something completely, entirely, absolutely unrelated on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image's website this afternoon when I came across this recent addition to its back catalog: a short film called Big D, which comes from the Dallas Municip ... More >>

Critical Mass: The Best Movies of 2008

Milk

Gus Van Sant delivers a timely reminder about intolerance

Gus Van Sant Returns to Disaffected Youth and Shoestring Budgets in Paranoid Park

Take Your Pix

Critics support up and coming artists

In The Halls

You'll Laugh Dying

Oui, Oui

Visit gay (and sad and romantic) Paris

Palm d'Hoberman

Our one-man jury bestows honors on the best of Cannes 2007.

America Cannes

Art imitates life as U.S. directors command this year's fest, with only China rivaling for celluloid domination.

Man-on-Man Action

It's Spartan hotties vs. Persian trannies in 300

Green Grass for a Local Filmmaker

There's the Beef

Richard Linklater's ensemble polemic may just turn you off burgers for good

Walking the Line

More music biopics? Good. Bad musicians starring in them? Not so much.

No Way Out

Last Days follows the final spiral of a tormented musician

Icky, Icky, Icky

Nicole Kidman falls in love with a 10-year-old boy... sorry, her dead husband

Multiplying by Zero

Ben Coccio's mock documentary gratuitously rehearses the school shooting scenario

Elephant's Graveyard

Gus Van Sant explores the American high school

Mr. Misery

Elliott Smith officially becomes his generation's Nick Drake

Lost Boys

In Gerry, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck hit the desert, and the desert hits back

Money Men

Five years after Swingers, Jon Favreau just wanted to get a movie Made

Well Dunne

The Deep Ellum Film Festival returns, suffering from the Terrific Twos

Forgive its trespasses

Intermittently entertaining, Denis Johnson's junkies drift along in Jesus' Son

Eight is enough

Hollywood mainstream in the slipstream: hits, misses, remakes, and blasts from the past

Rehitting the showers

Gus Van Sant's re-Psycho'd Hitchcock classic is a little dated, but not without fresh blood

Your fiends and neighbors

Clay Pigeons pokes and pries at country discomforts

Return to sender

If only Return to Paradise were as good as its commercials

Broken Fever

The hardest thing Nick Brisco ever did was grow up

The accidental star

Elliott Smith on his new album, the Oscars, and why he needs a new favorite shirt

Soft touch in the head

Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting is all heart, no brain

Dangerous liaisons

To Die For is a witty, monochromatic look at media ambition

Contact high

As a teenage junkie in The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio joins an elite corps of true screen actors