& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 28, 2020 “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” welcomed Gus Van Sant to the indie-sphere After a handful of missteps, Gus Van Sant regained his footing with a solid—if fittingly flawed—indie.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month June 27, 2020 “The Sea of Trees” saw talented artists set adrift Matthew McConaughey wasted a performance in Gus Van Sant's most disappointing film, a self-important look at white male redemption.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 26, 2020 The Manic Pixie Dream Girl became a nightmare in the insufferably twee “Restless” Glib in concept and garish in emotions, Gus Van Sant's quirk-fest is a testament to just how grating the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope can be.
G Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 24, 2020 Gus Van Sant’s “Milk” has soured with time Gus Van Sant's squeaky clean biopic about the famed gay rights activist marks a myopic and pandering misstep in the director's filmography.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 23, 2020 The quiet realism of “Paranoid Park” showed Gus Van Sant at his indie best Both tactile and ethereal, Gus Van Sant's skateboarding drama saw him expand upon his neorealist work that spanned the 2000s.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 22, 2020 “Good Will Hunting” was Gus Van Sant’s big swing for the normies Gus Van Sant's Oscar-winning character drama is a safe, middlebrow nuts-and-bolts picture as formative as it is uncreative for the filmmaker.
F Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 20, 2020 From death to birth, “Last Days” showed Kurt Cobain fade from man to myth A look at death as the great equalizer, Gus Van Sant's Kurt Cobain-inspired drama looks at the decay from man to myth—but never legend.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 18, 2020 “Elephant” forced us to see the normal inside the horrific Bringing the works of Tarr and Akerman to modern America, Gus Van Sant's drama about student life around a school shooting remains a vital work.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 16, 2020 “My Own Private Idaho” searches for queer freedom Gus Van Sant's 1991 queer classic is a mournful tone poem about lost youth, and the intersection between class and queerness.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 14, 2020 The “Psycho” remake is an ironically bloodless exercise in technique Gus Van Sant's remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic is a cut-and-paste exercise that plays like little more than a rehash of the original.
