The Guardian: Gus Van Sant: ‘My assistant wanted to erect a statue of Luigi Mangione. My generation thought: this is murder’
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Gus Van Sant
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. is an American filmmaker, photographer, painter, and musician. He has earned acclaim as an independent filmmaker, and is considered to be one of the most prominent auteurs of the new queer cinema movement. His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures, especially within gay culture.
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entertainment · American filmmaker (born 1952) · film director · photographer · screenwriter · film producer · film editor · film actor · musician · theatre director · also Gus Van Sant, Sant
Born 24 July 1952 · Q25186
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true-crime thriller
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The Guardian: From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘He was easy to spot!’ Gus Van Sant on spying Andy Warhol – and his musical about him
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: Gus Van Sant: 'We are living in a wilder time than anything we could imagine'
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The Guardian: Gucci's latest collection revealed in series of films by Gus Van Sant
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Gus Van Sant: 'Whatever scene we're filming, we make it as hard as we can'
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2014· 1 entry
To discuss filmmaking, writing, film history and their collaborations that never got made (The Golden Suicides) and the one that did (The Canyons)
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2008· 1 entry
Van Sant's Milk is a biopic of openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, who was assassinated in 1978
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2006· 1 entry
Van Sant began work on Paranoid Park based on the book by Blake Nelson, about a skateboarding teenager who accidentally causes someone's death
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2005· 1 entry
Van Sant released Last Days, the final component of what he refers to as his "Death Trilogy", (the other parts being Gerry and Elephant)
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Palme d'Or for Elephant (2003).
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Awarded Cannes Best Director Award for Elephant (2003).
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2000· 1 entry
Van Sant directed Finding Forrester, about a high-school student (Rob Brown) from the Bronx unlikely becoming a friend of a crusty, reclusive author (Sean Connery)
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “18 Songs About Golf”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Gus Van Sant”.
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Van Sant gained mainstream recognition and critical acclaim thanks to Good Will Hunting, which was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
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1985· 1 entry
Released ep “The Elvis of Letters”.
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1981· 1 entry
Van Sant made Alice in Hollywood, a film about a naïve young actress who goes to Hollywood and abandons her ideals
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1970· 1 entry
Where his introduction to various avant-garde directors inspired him to change his major from painting to cinema
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-07-24.
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