Tag: Gus Van Sant
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How Gus Vant Sant’s ‘Psycho’ Compares to Alfred Hitchcock’s
Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of Psycho is one of the strangest “blank check” type movies from an important American auteur. Fresh off the breakout success of Good Will Hunting, Van Sant had the clout and resources to realize any dream project, and he chose to remake one of the most important and influential horror…
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10 Most Underrated Sean Penn Movies, Ranked
Sean Penn is unquestionably one of the greatest living actors, and someone who Hollywood has been keen to reward for his contributions to the industry. Penn already has two Academy Award wins on his resume thanks to his victories in the Best Actor category for Clint Eastwood’s grizzly crime thriller Mystic River and Gus Van…
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‘Sidonie in Japan’ Review: A Haunted Isabelle Huppert Gives This Gently Drifting Ghost Story a Soul
The mythology around Japan as a nation of everyday ghosts — where the living and the dead share space, occasionally in view of each other — can lead certain western filmmakers into dubious territory: If you don’t recall how Gus van Sant floundered with the mawkish, condescending exoticism of “The Sea of Trees,” trust that…
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Steven Soderbergh Gave Us His Own Take On ‘Psycho’ Without Any New Footage
Once upon a time, after announcing a retirement from filmmaking, Steven Soderbergh continued pursuing the medium of cinema in a different, albeit still creative form: he spliced together a heady fan edit that wedded Hitchcock’s horror classic Psycho and Gus Van Sant’s fascinating but controversial shot-for-shot remake. By editing the two films together in the…
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‘Dune’ Star Stellan Skarsgård to Be Honored by Locarno Film Festival
Veteran Swedish star Stellan Skarsgård, who plays villain Baron Harkonnen in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” – part two of which will be released in November – will be honoured by the Locarno Film Festival with its Leopard Club Award.Skarsgård, who started his Hollywood career working with top directors such as StevenSpielberg in “Amistad” (1997) and Gus…
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Oscar-Winning Editor Pietro Scalia to Be Honored by Locarno Film Festival
Two-time Oscar-winning editor Pietro Scalia will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its Vision Award honoring technical achievements and advancements in film.Scalia, who was born in Sicily but grew up in Switzerland and studied film at UCLA, has won Oscars for “JFK” and “Black Hawk Down.” Over the past two decades he’s collaborated…