Gus van Sant

Interview: In A Violent Nature director Chris Nash on taking genre risks and finding inspiration through the works of Gus Van Sant

In A Violent Nature is being praised as a one-of-a-kind horror experience that must be enjoyed on the big screen. Following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January as part of the festivals celebrated ‘Midnight’ program, this unique horror film released theatrically in the US on 1,426 screens and grossed US$3 million in…

Peter Gray

Film Review: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (USA, 2018) is a charming crowd-pleaser with a dash of irreverent humour

It may not seem like it, but it’s been ten years since director Gus Van Sant gave us the powerful and Oscar-winning biopic Milk. Since then, the filmmaker has been in somewhat of a slump, with three films (Restless, Promised Land, and The Sea of Trees) falling flat on their faces. You probably didn’t see any of them and you…

Doug Jamieson

Watch the first trailer for Gus Van Sant’s latest The Sea of Trees

For the second time this year, a film will take us through Aokigahara or Japan’s Suicide Forest, this time with Gus van Sant, Naomi Watts and Matthew McConaughey in the emotional drama The Sea of Trees. The film will follow McConaughey’s character as he travels to Japan with the intention of taking his own life, and decides…

Jake Tired