Gus Van Sant News

So, your favourite film is about to be remade. Question: why do you care? Oh, I used to be like you.

Hollywood loves to cannibalize itself. Every summer, the studios plunder past glories with sequels, prequels, reboots - and remakes.

The movie remake is an interesting breed of cat. Essentially, at least the way I understand it, you're taking an established work made years ago and either trying to modernize it, improve on it, or ride on its reputation for a nice payday.

Michael Pitt and fiancA©e Jamie Bochert, as photographed by Stephen Meisel for Vogue Italia.

Oregon may not be Hollywood, but our state has played itself in movies that range all over the cinematic map.

The Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Festival, put on by Marylhurst University, began on May 1st with a nice talk between Gus Van Sant and James Ivory at McMenamins Mission Theater in NW Downtown Portland.

Last night at the Mission Theater, the Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Festival kicked off with an utterly absorbing conversation between directors Gus Van Sant and James Ivory.

In some of the trippiest adaptation news to surface in years, both Jack Black and Woody Harrelson are on the shortlist to play novelist Ken Kesey in a film version of Tom Wolfe 's classic examination of hippie culture, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." According to Rolling Stone , the film will be guided by Gus Van Sant , the director of "Milk" ...

The art of adapting a previously popular work to the big screen is a particularly tricky proposition.

There aren't a lot of good movies out there about writing. Archaeologists have "Indiana Jones," those boring, know-it-all mathematicians have "A Beautiful Mind," stockbrokers have "Wall Street," and criminals have the "Ocean's 11" movies.

Say what you will about Gus Van Sant's bewilderingly faithful Psycho redux - at least it had a purpose.

Based on the True Story. "Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. Milk is a marvel." "Penn's Oscar-caliber transformation is breathtaking, and the saga of one man's fight for human rights is engrossing." Claudia Puig, USA Today "...the best film of the year!" Clay Smith, The Insider "A fascinating film -- more docudrama than biopic." Owen ...

You can add James Franco to the list of Criterion's most ardent fans. This month, the actor, seen left in a photo recalling My Own Private Idaho, taken by Gus Van Sant in Oregon in fall 2008, has contributed to our ongoing collection of Criterion top ten lists.

Gus Van Sant is the flyest cat on the block. He's been around since the mid-'80s. I always forget that.

Sergei Makovetsky: 1st Juror Nikita Mikhalkov: 2nd Juror Sergei Garmash: 3rd Juror Valentin Gaft: 4th Juror Alexei Petrenko: 5th Juror Yuri Stoyanov: 6th Juror Sergei Gazarov: 7th Juror Mikhail Efremov: 8th ...

"Milk" The best thing about this stirring biopic is its tone. Most biopics treat their subjects with dreary reverence.

Emotive appeal: A still from the film 'Milk'. Film: Milk Director: Gus Van Sant This is the movie that won Sean Penn his second best actor trophy at the Oscars, after Mystic River .

Billy Crudup in 'Watchmen' BEVERLY HILLS, California - Setting aside the end result, reviews and box-office performance, what is the gutsiest film ever made? Was it Gus Van Sant's shot-by-shot remake of ...

This acid Swiss comedy has it all: rancor, full frontal nudity and rich black-and-white photography of the remote, snowy Vallee du Joux.

There would seem to be few tasks more thankless than making a biopic of Kurt Cobain.