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Arriaga's 'Plain' to bow at Venice (Variety.com)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:35:53 GMT

... runs Aug. 27-Sept. 6.Other titles tipped for a Lido bow, but still not confirmed, include “Milk,” Gus Van Sant’s biopic of slain gay pol , with in the title role, /-starrer “Righteous Kill,” helmed by , Michael Winterbottom’s “Genoa” and Spike Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna.”Among strong Italian contenders for a Lido bow are Ferzan Ozpetek’s “Una Giornata Perfetta” (Perfect Day) and Pupi Avati’s...

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Duo ready to 'Apologize' (Variety.com)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:52:29 GMT

... is separately developing an adaptation of the 1968 book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," with Gus Van Sant attached to direct.1992 - Hugo Weaving, P.J. Hogan2005 - Gwyneth Paltrow, John MaddenOriginal Music, Music Editor, SongActor, Screenplay, Book as Source Material

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The Second Coming of Toad Hall? (Towleroad)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:33:54 GMT

During the filming of Gus van Sant's Milk, legendary Castro Street bar Toad Hall was recreated at its old address. Now, it appears that nostalgia has taken hold and another bar bearing the same name is going up around the...

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To Die For (1995) (Ferdy on Films, etc.)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:48:23 GMT

To Die For (1995) Director: Gus Van Sant By Marilyn Ferdinand Suzanne Stone Maretto: It's nice to live in a country where life, liberty... and all the rest of it still stand for something. Suzanne Stone Maretto: You're not...

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Cadillac Fleetwood: Choice Of Seattle Junkies [Movies] (Jalopnik)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy isn't a car movie per se, but you'll see some great old Detroit iron in this 1989 film (which is set in early-70s Seattle). Somehow this choice of vehicle just seems right . Thanks to this YouTuber , we can watch Matt Dillon shoot some smack in a smooth-ridin' 1965 Cadillac Fleetwood. Enjoy.

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Cadillac Fleetwood: Choice Of Seattle Portland Junkies [Movies] (Jalopnik)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy isn't a car movie per se, but you'll see some great old Detroit iron in this 1989 film (which is set in early-70s Seattle Portland). Somehow this choice of vehicle just seems right . Thanks to this YouTuber , we can watch Matt Dillon shoot some smack in a smooth-ridin' 1965 Cadillac Fleetwood. Enjoy.

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Gus Van Sant at Milk Club Dinner (SFist)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:59:11 GMT

Gus Van Sant has always held a warm and fuzzy spot in our hearts since My Own Private Idaho ( Helloooo Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix!) but Van Sant has won us all over again with the shooting of Milk , which we stalked covered while shooting was happening. Now, Van Sant is set to be speaking at the Milk Club dinner on June 17th . Today's the last day to purchase tickets, so head...

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Cadillac Fleetwood: Choice Of Seattle Junkies [Movies] (Worlwide Cars News at Go-Cars.org)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:06:07 GMT

newVideoPlayer(”Drugstore_Cowboy_65Cad_476.flv”, 506, 423,”"); Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy isn’t a car movie per se, but you’ll see some great old Detroit iron in this 1989 film (which is set in early-70s Seattle). Somehow this choice of vehicle just seems right. Thanks to this YouTuber, we can watch Matt Dillon shoot some smack in a [...]

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One more chance to see "Paranoid Park" (Reeling)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:14:02 GMT

If you missed Gus Van Sant's excellent Paranoid Park during its brief South Florida run last month (go here for my review), you'll have one more chance to see it this Friday - and get to talk to Van Sant...

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Gus Van Sant's 'Milk' beat out other production - Lower Hudson Journal news (Brad Pitt Celebrity News)

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:39:05 GMT

Gus Van Sant's 'Milk' beat out other productionLower Hudson Journal news, NY - 24 minutes ago"I thought Kevin could play Harvey and I'd try to get Brad Pitt to play Dan White," Singer recalls. "Kevin had done 'Seven' with Brad, and I remember asking …

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Post-Cannes Oscar Predictions: (Low Resolution)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:20:00 GMT

... The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount)03 - Changeling (Universal)04 - Defiance (Paramount Vantage)05 - Doubt (Miramax)Next Five: Revolutionary Road (Paramount Vantage); The Reader (Weinstein Co.); Che (Focus); Australia (20th Century Fox); Frost/Nixon (Universal).I'm holding on to my hope that Milk will live up to its sky-high potential, and since nothing's happened thus far to make me...

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Lucas Grabeel: Milk Role 'Changed My Life' — Also, I'm Not Gay (Towleroad)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:18:32 GMT

In a posting to his official site, 23-year-old High School Musical actor Lucas Grabeel writes about acting in Gus van Sant's Milk. In Milk, Grabeel plays Dan Nicoletta, Harvey Milk's close friend and supporter who worked as a clerk at...

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Is it time to give Pärt a rest? (The blog Film)

Thu, 29 May 2008 09:52:08 GMT

... Candy, for Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes and Cédric Kahn's Red Lights, for Tom Twyker's Heaven, Gus van Sant's Gerry and Carlos Reygadas' Japón. It's there in Michael Mann's The Insider, it's there to furnish the terrible aftermath of the World Trade Center attack in Fahrenheit 9/11, and, incongruously, it's there when Madonna snogs the feet of her fellow castaway in Guy Ritchie's desert-island...

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Sonic Youth Visits Starbucks (IGN)

Wed, 28 May 2008 21:28:00 GMT

- Universal Special Markets and Starbucks Entertainment have announced the release of Sonic Youth's Hits Are For Squares a new limited edition CD featuring select songs from the inconic band's canon as picked by celebrity fans.Among those who helped choose the music on this album are Beck, Dave Eggers, Chloe Sevigny, Eddie Vedder, and Gus Van Sant.In addition to classic tracks the album will...

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We Feel Conflicted About the Union of Sonic Youth & Starbucks (MTV Newsroom)

Wed, 28 May 2008 17:03:19 GMT

... of songs selected by famous people. Some of the “curators” we get, like Beck, Mike D, Raidohead, Gus Van Sant, Chloe Sevigny, and, hell, even Dave Eggers. We’d like to know what their favorite Sonic Youth tracks are. But what for freak’s sake are Portia De Rossi and Diablo Cody doing on this'? The complete track list after the jump. Share This

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Harvey Milk returns home (Gay.com)

Fri, 23 May 2008 17:49:28 GMT

... police officer who had just resigned his supervisor's seat. A film on Milk's life, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn, was and will be released in the fall. The bust, sculpted by Daub Firmin Hendrickson of Berkeley, Calif., and based on a photograph taken by a friend, shows Milk with a wide grin and his tie fluttering in the San Francisco wind. It sits atop a solid granite base...

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Sonic Youth go to Starbucks! (Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch)

Thu, 22 May 2008 20:51:31 GMT

... into a Starbucks at any point this summer and hear the sludgy drone of "Tom Violence" (thanks, Gus Van Sant!) drowning out people's latte orders. Maybe I'm the kind of square these Hits were made for, after all. But what do you think of all this synergy, anyway?

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REMAKE REQUEST (Word Around the Net)

Thu, 22 May 2008 16:53:00 GMT

"I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting." -Gus Van Sant Hollywood keeps remaking movies, it is one of their three primary sources of inspiration lately: sequels, movie versions of old TV shows, and remakes of old movies. Original content is almost entirely limited to comic book

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Cannes 2008: Review - Afterschool (Rotten Tomatoes)

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:43:00 GMT

At last year's Cannes Film Festival, Gus van Sant debuted, out of competition, his adaptation of Paranoid Park, a story about a quiet teenage boy who, through an unfortunately set of circumstance becomes involved in a death. It's worth pointing out, because Afterschool, from director Antonio Campos, is almost the exact same film. Down to the slow, meandering style and unconventional camerawork,...

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Focus sells Van Sant's 'Milk' (Variety.com)

Mon, 19 May 2008 18:51:19 GMT

Film News: Mendes' film, Coens' 'Man' also sells -- Focus Features Intl. has brought a ray of sunshine to an otherwise uncertain Cannes market with a slew of sales for its slate. Gus Van Sant's "Milk," the biopic of slain gay pol Harvey Milk starring Sean Penn, has sold to Constantin in Germany, SND in France, Bim in Italy Paradise in Russia, Svensk in Scandinavia and Serenity in Taiwan.

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