Gus Van Sant

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About John Callahan who became paralyzed after a car accident at age 21, and turned to drawing as a form of therapy. (imdb)

A chronicled re-telling the gay rights movement in the United States, beginning with the Stonewall riots in 1969. (imdb) (imdb)

A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out. (imdb)

A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources. (imdb)

The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII. (imdb)

Biopic about gay-rights icon Harvey Milk, activist, politician, and the first openly gay man in America to be elected to public office.

A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard. [Originally released in 2007]

Last Days is filmmaker Gus Van Sant's fictional meditation on the inner turmoil that engulfs a brilliant, but troubled musician in the final hours of his life. (Picturehouse)

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

A friendship between two twenty-something men is tested to its very limits when they go on a hike in a desert and forget to bring any water or food with them. (imdb)

An uplifting story about the unusual dynamic between an isolated author and the confident teenager who changes his life.

Intrigued by the notion of taking an intact, undeniable classic and seeing what would happen if it were made again - with a nearly identical shooting script - but with contemporary filmmaking techniques, Gus Van Sant recreates the motion picture Psycho. (Universal Studios)

A janitor at MIT, Will Hunting has a gift for maths that can take him light-years beyond his blue-collar roots, but to achieve his dream he must turn his back on the neighborhood and his best friend. To complicate matters, two strangers enter the equation: a washed-up shrink who starts to coach Will through his transformation, and a med student who shows him that there can be a pretty face along with his life of the mind. (imdb)

Allen Ginsberg recites his title poem to music by Paul McCartney, Philip Glass, and Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye.

The short film was made from material shot for a Levi’s commercial on which Gus Van Sant was given complete freedom. Van Sant delivered the ad, and separately made his own short film; one that feels complete in and unto itself.

Structured in a documentary style, the film focuses on the life of a woman (Kidman) obsessed with the dream of becoming a media personality. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)

Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age... (imdb)

Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike (River Phoenix) is quiet, gay and suffers from narcolepsy. Abandoned as a child, he is obsessed with finding his long-lost mother. Scott (Keanu Reeves) is the rebellious son of a high-ranking family, who lives this life mostly to embarrass his father... (imdb)

An indictment ballad of all the different political groups in America. (imdb)

A realistic road movie about a drug addict, his 'family', and their inevitable decline into crime. (imdb)

Gus Van Sant, dissatisfied professionally, counts five ways to end his life.

Based on the Walt Curtis autobiographical novel of the same name, Mala Noche is a story of amour fou. (imdb)

Gus Van Sant's early short film about "The Discipline of D.E.," which is an extremely efficient way of doing things (imdb)