Among Portland’s most prominent local celebrities is Gus Van Sant, a leading New Queer Cinema voice whose early works were filmed across Oregon, often in the Rose City itself. My Own Private Idaho ...
It’s not dramatic, it’s Shakespearean! A ’90s cult classic, “My Own Private Idaho”, directed and written by Gus Van Sant, depicts the lives of street hustlers in a grand vision of brash surreality.
It’s been 20 years and we still can’t quit Ang Lee’s sweeping cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain, this heart-wrenching tale of forbidden love in the Montana outback. But tucked away in the history of ...
In the second episode of “Variety Confidential: The Life and Legend of River Phoenix,” the podcast shifts its focus from the actor’s explosive rise to the pivotal moment when his life began to unravel ...