Local filmmakers Gus Van Sant and Todd Haynes talk fracking, MTV and old Portland.
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Todd Haynes, the Portland-based Academy Award-nominated director of Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven and the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There agreed...
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We asked four Portlanders for their perspectives on Gus Van Sant. Here’s what they said.
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JON RAYMOND, Author
I first laid eyes on Gus Van Sant sometime around 1990. It was at the Clinton Street Theater, and he was screening Mala Noche in the lead-up to the release of My Own Private Idaho
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We asked four Portlanders for their perspectives on Gus Van Sant. Here’s what they said.
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AARON MESH, WW staff writer
If you can bear it, now is the necessary time to return to Gus Van Sant’s Elephant.
Next year marks the
10th anniversary of the director’s re-creation of the Colum
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We asked four Portlanders for their perspectives on Gus Van Sant. Here’s what they said.
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JAMES WESTBY, Filmmaker
In Last Days, famous and troubled musician Blake
(Michael Pitt) gets a visit from a Yellow Pages salesman. Blake is
wearing a dress with combat boots and can barely speak.
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We asked four Portlanders for their perspectives on Gus Van Sant. Here’s what they said.
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VIVA LAS VEGAS, Author and stripper
Once upon a time (this is a fairy tale), late on a
Tuesday night at Mary’s Club, a posse of handsome, well-dressed men
entered the bar and quietly took seats
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Forget about a Top 10 list. Here are three Top Threes.
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2012 has been a busy year on the WW
film beat. In April, after five years at the helm, Aaron Mesh moved to
the news desk. Matthew Singer replaced him until October, when he became
music editor a
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Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land wears its heart on its well-tailored sleeve.
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There are shots in Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land that could be mistaken for shots in 1991’s My Own Private Idaho: beautiful pastoral scenes, rolling country roads
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Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables lives up to its name.
With the exception of about 10 minutes, the nearly three-hour film is an
endless wallow in the fields of squalor, filth, chancre and herpes.
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Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is certainly cool. But is that enough?
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Give Quentin Tarantino this much: He’s got balls. Imagine
entering a meeting with a major studio, as a successful white director More
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Judd Apatow’s latest undertaking, This Is 40, revisits Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann), the churlish yet lovable couple first introduced in Knocked Up.
Fording the frigid waters of their
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