Gus Van Sant
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican film director, producer, photographer and musician (born 1952)
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. is an American filmmaker, photographer, painter, and musician. He has earned acclaim as an independent filmmaker, and is considered to be one of the most prominent auteurs of the new queer cinema movement.
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I grew up on the experimental cinema coming out of New York and San Francisco in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.
Stated in the interview Gus Van Sant remembers Andy Warhol’s transgressive film The Chelsea Girls, Interview magazine,(April 23, 2018).
Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be.
From an interview by Chai Hong Lim, The Guardian, (January 16, 2009).
For me it was a lot like using music. I used it when I felt that it was right, when I felt like it was time.
In response to the question: "Was there an attempt in Last Days to connect the use of the musique concrete to specific themes in the
Filmography 40
Good Will Hunting
To Die For
Milk
Elephant
Kids
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Finding Forrester
My Own Private Idaho
Psycho
Dead Man's Wire
Paris Je T'aime
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Promised Land
Laurence Anyways
Drugstore Cowboy
The Sea of Trees
Paranoid Park
Last Days
Restless
Gerry
The Canyons
I Am Michael
Howl
To Each His Own Cinema
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Zeroville
Mala Noche
Tarnation
Virginia
Age Out
Wild Tigers I Have Known
Speedway Junky
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Funky Monks
The Discipline of D.E.
Critic
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Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
My Own Private River161 credits on file
Television 10
Entourage
Portlandia
Boss
FEUD
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
When We Rise
The Greatest Event in Television History
Hi Octane
Leçon de Cinéma
Ouverture Of Something That Never EndedAwards 2
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About this person
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. is an American filmmaker, photographer, painter, and musician. He has earned acclaim as an independent filmmaker, and is considered to be one of the most prominent auteurs of the new queer cinema movement. His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures, especially within gay culture.
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