The Playlist’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guide
Film fans are notoriously hard to shop for: hoarders by nature, obnoxiously opinionated, and weirdly unpredictable in our tastes. But the good news is, there are so many options for the movie lover o...
Matt Damon On Michael Mann’s ‘Good Will Hunting’ Take As Possible Director: “What The F*ck Is Going On?”
The legends of "Good Will Hunting" have generally been told at this point. There's been books and many oral histories written about the making of the movie. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon worked on the script for ...
Harry Styles & Billie Eilish To Appear In A Series Of Gucci Short Films Directed By Gus Van Sant
You really don’t know what to expect when you find out that filmmaker Gus Van Sant is working on a new project. Is it a new feature film? A music video? An acting appearance? Well, if you had “directing a seri...
‘To Die For’ At 25: The Fame Chasing In Gus Van Sant’s Drama Is As Toxic As Ever
To watch Nicole Kidman in Gus Van Sant’s black-comedy/thriller fusion "To Die For" is to understand how a combination of ruthless ambition and careless vapidity can spawn a self-absorbed media landscape that l...
Gus Van Sant Discusses ‘Don’t Worry,’ Joaquin Phoenix’s Character Obsessions & How Robin Williams Killed Time On Set [Podcast]
When "Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot" hit theaters last July, it certainly had its eye on more prestigious (and real) accolades than 2018's Quickest To Depart The Conversation. Yet early awards buzz for ...
Adam McKay & Gus Van Sant Talk ‘Vice’ & The “Unearned Confidence Of The Mediocre White Guy”
If you’re going to count the number of directors who went from very broad, silly, mainstream comedies to respected, dramatic Oscar contenders, the list is small and arguably only contains Mike Nichols who admit...
Will Ferrell & Gus Van Sant To Team Up For ‘Prince Of Fashion’
Waaaay back in April, we reported that Will Ferrell let it slip that he was “hopefully” working with filmmaker Gus Van Sant on a film. At the time, we had no clue what it might be, but the idea of Van Sant and ...
Gus Van Sant Says Robin Williams Originally Was To Star In ‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot’
Last week, Joaquin Phoenix’s latest film, “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” was released in select theaters. The highly-anticipated film has been receiving a lot of buzz for Phoenix and filmmaker Gus Van ...
Gus Van Sant’s ‘The Sea Of Trees’ With Matthew McConaughey Is A Contrived & Phony Drama [Review]
This is a reprint of our review from the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
There appear to be two Gus Van Sants. There's the groundbreaking indie/arthouse guy, who kicked off his career with "Drugstore Cowboy" and ...
Matthew McConaughey Goes To Japan In New Trailer For Gus Van Sant’s ‘The Sea Of Trees’
Sometimes, you can put together a terrific cast, an auteur director, and the ingredients just don't mix, and unfortunately, that's what happened with "The Sea Of Trees." Gus Van Sant directing Matthew McConaugh...