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Daniel Robert Epstein: Gus Van Sant - Last Days

courtneyriot

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

SEP 02, 2005 06:00 AM

DANIEL ROBERT EPSTEIN: Gus Van Sant - Last Days

Gus Van Sant has made many films which have become touchstones for generations such as Drugstore Cowboy, Good Will Hunting and Elephant. His latest one, Last Days, tackles the early 90s by doing a fictional story of the last three days of Kurt Cobains life. The Cobain-like character [played by Michael Pitt] wanders around his desolate property inviting in Mormons and salesmen to say whatever they want to him while he grunts. The various supporting characters drift in and out of the film almost like dreams. Last Days chronicles...

jonasgrumby

Portland, OR

April 2004

SEP 02, 2005 07:19 AM

DRE: Criterion implements a lot of extra footage in their DVD releases. Do you usually have a lot of extra material in your films?

DRE: We dont really shoot a lot of other material. I know thats what they like to do. Elephant didnt really have much. In Last Days there are other people doing similar things to what Blake is doing. Asia takes a bath; Nicole wakes up. The Mormon boys go on for like a ten minutes.

Apparently Anders got into this interview so much he started answering his own questions...

Ten extra minutes of Mormon footage on the eventual DVD? Wow, I'm so there.

van_goghs_ear

Farmington, MI

March 2005

SEP 02, 2005 07:44 AM

great interview. really liked the fact that he was asked about the criterion edition of my own private idaho. last days was one of this years best films i think.

xokatyxo

United Kingdom

December 2004

SEP 02, 2005 10:40 AM

I'm such a dork for Gus.

I paid a stupid amount of money for a signed copy of his book of photographs "108 Portraits" a few years ago. I even loved his novel "Pink". I've been so excited about seeing 'Last Days' too... dork, dork, dork.

pharaoh

Los Angeles, CA

August 2002

SEP 02, 2005 02:33 PM

worst. movie. ever.

i've never been so bored in my entire life. every moment was agony. 30 seconds of a still camera on hedges and other shrubbery? ack.

pretension at its worst.

i think people who say they like this movie are fooling themselves.

jonasgrumby

Portland, OR

April 2004

SEP 02, 2005 05:06 PM

pharaoh said:
pretension at its worst.

I <3 artistic pretension. I really, really do.

kubrick5

I'm lost

March 2005

SEP 02, 2005 06:58 PM

I feel so left out. I haven't seen Last Days yet. I know its going to be one of my favorite movies. I loved the directing in Elephant and Gerry. And its the same directing style in Last Days too. People might not like it cause it's slow and "boring" but these movies are more movie art, then big summer blockbusters. Only real moviue buffs can like these type of movies. And thats what I like about them. And Gus is a great director with a different style. A style I would rather follow in the movies I write and direct.

I would like to see what he does with The Time Traveler's Wife. I haven't read the book, not a fan of reading (saddly).

Gus is great, but I like to aviod his "shot by shot remake" of Psycho. haven't scene it and don't really plan on seeing it. Although I have been thinking of watching/studying remakes of classics. (Psycho, The Shinning)

van_goghs_ear

Farmington, MI

March 2005

SEP 02, 2005 07:36 PM

pharaoh said:
worst. movie. ever.

i've never been so bored in my entire life. every moment was agony. 30 seconds of a still camera on hedges and other shrubbery? ack.

pretension at its worst.

i think people who say they like this movie are fooling themselves.

i'm not fooling myself at all, i have no problem with long shots or minimalist cinema at all. in fact i'm a huge fan of that style of film making. you can call it pretentious if you want, but for me i'm not fooling myself i loved the film.

walkswithbears

United Kingdom

March 2003

SEP 04, 2005 05:13 AM

I loved the languid feel of Elephant and Gerry, and by all accounts this film is supposed be even better. Pity nowhere near where I live is showing it though. However, everywhere is showing The Dukes Od Hazzard. There's no justice.

jessikalaughs

Wooster, OH

September 2005

SEP 05, 2005 03:22 AM

I liked Good Will Hunting. But then I came across Gerry on IFC. I thought I was going to pull my hair out. It was the most boring film I have ever seen. There were long stretches where Matt Damon and Casey Affleck were just walking. And I mean they wouldn't even change angles, it was a master shot. I started counting the minutes when they would do long stretches like that. For one scene I got to 8 mins! Then the ending was so anticlimactic I was going to cry! Talk about a let down. I sit there for 100 some minutes for an ending I coulda wipped my ass with. I really don't know what he nor anyone involved was thinking when they made this... Sure the atmosphere was nice, but if I wanted to see that I'd check out discovery channel or the weather channel...
Ahh well, enough of me ranting on the subject.... I'm done..

jonasgrumby

Portland, OR

April 2004

SEP 05, 2005 06:57 PM

jessikalaughs said:
I liked Good Will Hunting. But then I came across Gerry on IFC. I thought I was going to pull my hair out. It was the most boring film I have ever seen. There were long stretches where Matt Damon and Casey Affleck were just walking. And I mean they wouldn't even change angles, it was a master shot. I started counting the minutes when they would do long stretches like that. For one scene I got to 8 mins! Then the ending was so anticlimactic I was going to cry! Talk about a let down. I sit there for 100 some minutes for an ending I coulda wipped my ass with. I really don't know what he nor anyone involved was thinking when they made this... Sure the atmosphere was nice, but if I wanted to see that I'd check out discovery channel or the weather channel...
Ahh well, enough of me ranting on the subject.... I'm done..

I loved Gerry. Fun fun fun.