Gus Van Sant

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"Howl": Longtime doc filmmakers tackle Ginsberg's poem

10 Things To Do For Under $10: KISS Cover Love, Screaming Females, World Cupping

Screaming Females play tonight at Hemlock​There seems to be something cheap for everyone this lovely first weekend of June. Art openings, the ultimate underground foodie event, plenty of live music and D.J.s ready to vie for your attention -- and it's all for less than the cost of a quality six-pa ... More >>

And Don’t Litter

Screaming Females play tonight at Hemlock​There seems to be something cheap for everyone this lovely first weekend of June. Art openings, the ultimate underground foodie event, plenty of live music and D.J.s ready to vie for your attention -- and it's all for less than the cost of a quality six-pa ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for March 3-9, 2010

Screaming Females play tonight at Hemlock​There seems to be something cheap for everyone this lovely first weekend of June. Art openings, the ultimate underground foodie event, plenty of live music and D.J.s ready to vie for your attention -- and it's all for less than the cost of a quality six-pa ... More >>

Cheap Weekend: 10 Things to Do for Under $10

Ash Reiter plays ATA on FridayEvery work week should last only four days, max. It's already Friday, friends, and time for a roundup of the best cheap ways to spend your time until the Man chains you back to your paycheck Monday morning. Inglourious Basterds at YBCA (Friday) Tonight Yerba Buena scree ... More >>

Our critics name the best films of 2008

Ash Reiter plays ATA on FridayEvery work week should last only four days, max. It's already Friday, friends, and time for a roundup of the best cheap ways to spend your time until the Man chains you back to your paycheck Monday morning. Inglourious Basterds at YBCA (Friday) Tonight Yerba Buena scree ... More >>

A Tale of Two Movies

After decades in development hell, how Gus Van Sant finally got Milk.

Proposition Hate

Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

Last Night: Milk Premiere at the Castro Theater

Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

Deathbowl to Downtown

Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

Milk Trailer Revealed

Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

Art House

Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.

Asia Rising

No flesh in the pan, Argento plays prominently in two featured movies at the Film Fest this year.

Sk8ter Boi

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets in Paranoid Park.

Paranoid Park

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets in Paranoid Park.

SFIndiefest Top Ten Flicks - Including Indiana Jones, Gus Van Sant, and Robbie Conal

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets in Paranoid Park.

BetterKnowanSFBlog -- SFist

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets in Paranoid Park.

Van Sant's 'Milk' Locked, Loaded while 'Mayor of Castro St.' Cock-Blocked By Writer's Strike

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets in Paranoid Park.

Harvey Milk Biopic to be filmed in SF, Mayor's Office Announces

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets in Paranoid Park.

Milking It: Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn And SFist's Open Casting Call

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets in Paranoid Park.

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division portrait proves the exception to the rock biopic drool

You'll Laugh Dying

Joy Division portrait proves the exception to the rock biopic drool

Blank Film

Joy Division portrait proves the exception to the rock biopic drool

Repertory Film Listings

Commentary by Gregg Rickman

We Aren't the World

How the Americans fared at Cannes.

Cannes d'Awards

Foreign films dominate this year at Cannes.

Palm d'Hoberman

Our one-man jury bestows honors on the best of Cannes 2007.

Independent film with local music = go see it

Our one-man jury bestows honors on the best of Cannes 2007.

Man on Man Action

It's Spartan hotties versus Persian trannies in Zack Snyder's far-too-faithful Frank Miller adaptation

There's the Beef

Richard Linklater's ensemble polemic may just turn you off burgers for good

No Way Out

Last Days follows the final spiral of a tormented musician

Multiplying by Zero

Ben Coccio's mock documentary gratuitously rehearses the school shooting scenario

Elephant, Man

Gus Van Sant explores the American high school

Cinema Synergy

Combining moviegoing with appropriate meals increases our pleasure

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Combining moviegoing with appropriate meals increases our pleasure

Cello Shots

Creativity in collaboration

Reps Etc.

Creativity in collaboration

Best New Locally Produced Documentary

Scouts' Honor by Tom Shepard

House Of Tudor

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

Short and Sweet-and-Sour

The disparate tales of "Boys Life 3" showcase the flourishing art of the gay short film

The Romantic Egotist

After decades of being misunderstood, novelist and gay icon John Rechy is fighting back -- and making Hollywood take notice

Eight Isn't Enough

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies

Reel World

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies

Zoom Lens

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies

The Good Creepiness; the Bad Creepiness

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies

Films for a Tired and Cynical Age

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies

Night+Day

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies

Anchors Awry

Up Close and Personal sinks lower than the intellectual wasteland of the TV news it depicts