Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Gus Van Sant"

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Psycho * (1998, Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Viggo Mortensen, Julianne Moore, William H Macy, Robert Forster, Philip Baker Hall) – Classic Movie Review 2301

Director Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic is a pointless lost cause. Van Sant won the 1999 Razzie award for Worst Director and the film won the Razzie for Worst […]

Mar, 22

Finding Forrester ***½ (2001, Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin) – Classic Movie Review 1518

Want to see Sean Connery spouting literature and cycling along the streets of New York? Director Gus Van Sant’s 2001 drama is the film for you! The 70-year-old Connery brings on his prose, his pushbike […]

Aug, 04

Last Days *** (2005, Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento) – Classic Movie Review 1375

Writer-producer-director Gus Van Sant’s 2005 Seattle-set rock ‘n roll drama is a fictionalised account of the last days of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Michael Pitt stars as a character called Blake, based on Cobain, who is collapsing […]

Jun, 29

Gerry *** (2002, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck) – Classic Movie Review 1374

There is no doubt that co-writer/director Gus Van Sant’s 2002 drama has Waiting for Godot on its mind as an inspiration and template. Two 20something blokes – both called Gerry for no particular reason – […]

Jun, 29

Elephant *** (2003, Elias McConnell, Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 1373

Two neo-Nazi high-school boys (Alex Frost, Eric Deulen) watch some Hitler rally newsreels, listen to Beethoven, then get kitted up in military gear and run amuck with a vast arsenal of weapons at their fictional […]

Jun, 29

Drugstore Cowboy ***** (1989, Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros, Heather Graham, James Remar) – Classic Movie Review 398

The 25-year-old Matt Dillon blazes across the screen in director Gus Van Sant’s powerful, riveting and acutely observed, anti-drugs drama from 1989. It scores strongly with its unusual, thought-proving, intelligently scripted story about a group of […]

Nov, 12

My Own Private Idaho **** (1991, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo) – Classic Movie Review 397

Writer-director Gus Van Sant’s 1991 cult favourite follow-up to the 1989 hit Drugstore Cowboy is a bravely, inspiringly poetic study of a friendship between two young male hustlers, both with parent issues. Two teen heart-throbs of the […]

Nov, 12

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