Gerry

Image Not Available Director: Gus Van Sant Dvd Release: 1st March, 2004 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Gerry is a 2002 film directed by Gus Van Sant starring Matt Damon & Casey Affleck. The film received widely diverse reactions, from contempt to lavish praise, as it made its way through the film festival circuit & the few theaters to which it was released. Reviewers agree that it marks a returning point in Van Sants film-making, away from commercially oriented film & back to his earlier experimentalism. Van Sant dispenses with narrative & conventional dialogue & instead attempts to tell the tale by establishing the mood & tempo of the characters, using lengthy real-time single- camera scenes, threaded together by aimless speeches, the sound closely focused on the rhythm of their breathing & their thumping steps, the camera following their bobbing heads or panning back to reveal a backdrop of surrealistically austere landscapes, to craft a feeling which is offered for the audience to react to. Whether this method of scene-making succeeds in creating an experience of frustration & aimlessness, or is simply frustrating & aimless, is the point of departure for many reviewers. Posters Of Gerry

Gus Van Sant Jr. is an American film director, photographer, musician & author. He has appeared in a cameo on screen in Kevin Smiths Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back & began as a commercial director in the Pacific Northwest. Van Sant was nominated for a Best Director Academy Award in 1998 for Good Will Hunting & won Best Director & Palme dOr at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant. He has written the screenplays for most of his early movies as well as a novel Pink ISBN 0385493533. A book of his photography has also been published called 108 Portraits ISBN 0944092225. Some of the movies he has written & / or directed include an adaptation of Tom Robbins novel Even Cowgirls get the Blues, which featured a truly one-of-a-kind cast & My Own Private Idaho, also starring Keanu Reeves as well as the late River Phoenix. He has released two CDs entitled Gus van Sant & 18 Songs About Golf. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. Posters Of Gerry

Editors Choice: Elephant, Gerry, Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester, Psycho, To Die For, Drugstore Cowboy, View DVDology

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