Gus Van Sant

Promised Land fights fracking

Matt Damon and John Krasinski pit big business against small-town environmentalists in this hard-sell film

The Columbine effect

Hollywood still obsessed with school shooting 13 years later

Harvey Milk and the Boy from Minnesota

Fantastic films in a frugal world

Which movies got you the most for your money in '08?

Film Highlight: Milk

Which movies got you the most for your money in '08?

Man found dead on downtown railroad tracks

Which movies got you the most for your money in '08?

Flight of the Red Balloon is an enigmatic masterpiece

Hou Hsiao-hsien's tale of a lonely mother and son takes flight

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth with Paranoid Park

A masterful work on a shoestring budget

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division portrait proves the exception to the rock biopic drool

The AmeriCannes Way

The Coen brothers, Gus Van Sant, Michael Moore, and Leonardo DiCaprio colonized screens at the French film fest

There's the Beef

'Fast Food Nation' may turn you off burgers for good

What Remains Of Us

'Old Joy' finds hope within a dying tradition

The Year in Film 2005

'Old Joy' finds hope within a dying tradition

Southern Discomfort

'The Real World' is no place for an artist like William Eggleston

Wild Men Blues

The tortured artist abuses his privilege in Sound Unseen's painful docs

His Own Private Biopic

Gus Van Sant shuffles past his subject's greatest hits

Nevermind The Narrative

'Last Days' wanders the woods of grunge

Cannes's Killer Movies

Competition was brutal at the world's most cutthroat film festival

Product Placement

Nicole Kidman advertises herself in 'Birth'

We Are Not Alone

IMAX discovers life on 'Mars'

Real Life Rock Top 10

Hughes kisses the devil, Wainwright flirts with activism, and Houston makes out all right

The Movie Lovers

The world makes out all right at the International Film Festival

It's All About Me!

Asia Argento--daughter of Dario--does her daddy proud

The Year in Film

Four critics pick 40 or so favorites--and fail to agree on a single one

Massacre at Kubrick High

The Steadicam goes on a rampage in 'Elephant'

Real Life Rock Top 10

Jack Black touches kids' souls, Martina McBride touches a nerve, and Kobe Bryant touches the ladies

Beast of Burden

'Elephant' takes on the full weight of tragedy

The Objects of Our Affection

There's plenty to love at the LGBT film festival

This Must Be The Place

In the documentary masterworks of Frederick Wiseman, ordinary people do battle with institutions--and the poetic tussles with the real

The Doc Is In

Nonfiction writes the prescription in Toronto

Oh, The Gaul!

Rancorous "Anti-Americanism" reigns at the 56th Cannes Film Festival

Desert Solitaire

Gus Van Sant goes his own way with a stark survival drama

Skin Flicks

The naked truth about putting together a regional showcase like the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. And a revealing body of blurbs about the best and the not-best of the fest.

The Wanderers

Seeking Signs of Civilization--and Artistic Sustenance--at the Sundance Film Festival

Capital Cinema

The money swapping was typically dubious. The movies were surprisingly bold. A story treatment from Hollywood's mountain outpost, Sundance 2001.

Signifying Wrapper

The Gift finds director Sam Raimi skimping on paper

My Own Private Van Sant

Finding Forrester's director used to make art--now he uses art to justify fluff

On the Rebound

This year's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival finds new queer cinema yearning to forget its affair with Hollywood

Artists of the Year

Framed, penned, screened, danced, sung, shot, delivered: City Pages lauds the artistic creations of 1999

Bizarre Love Triangle

Master of perversity Gregg Araki looks for the right angle on boy-girl sex

The Dearth of Dyke Cinema

Master of perversity Gregg Araki looks for the right angle on boy-girl sex

First Runner-Up

A stinging beauty-pageant satire set in Minnesota wins no prizes for congeniality

Mother Knows Best

A stinging beauty-pageant satire set in Minnesota wins no prizes for congeniality

Be My Baby

A stinging beauty-pageant satire set in Minnesota wins no prizes for congeniality

Braving the Elements

Gallo Humor: The actor-writer-director of Buffalo '66, Vincent Gallo.

His Better Half

On the Straight and Narrow: Matt Damon and Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting.

The Terrible Twos

In a pair of wretched new titles, Oliver Stone and Gus Van Sant show off their bookish sides--and it ain't pretty.

Hot Shots

In a pair of wretched new titles, Oliver Stone and Gus Van Sant show off their bookish sides--and it ain't pretty.

Anti-Heroines

In a pair of wretched new titles, Oliver Stone and Gus Van Sant show off their bookish sides--and it ain't pretty.