Gus Van Sant
1) Gerry
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Two friends that call each other GERRY decide to hide in the wilderness in order to see something. However, they do not find what they're looking for. They decide to return to the car but they get lost in the desert, without water, supplies or a compass. Now they have to walk, trying to find the road to survive. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
2) The Canyons
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An erotic thriller about youth, glamour, sex and surveilance. While calculating young movie producer Christian (adult film star James Deen) makes films to keep his trust fund intact, his actress girlfriend, Tara (Lindsay Lohan), hides an affair with an actor from her past. But Christian becomes aware which thrusts the young Angelenos into a violent, sexually-charged tour through the dark side of human nature. Also stars Gus van Sant.
3) Restless
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill teenage girl and a teenage boy who likes to attend funerals fall for each other.
4) Death
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Alejandro Innárritu comes to Bergman's home and muses on filmmaking and death.
5) To die for
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1995[1998]
Language
English
Description
In a small town in New Hampshire, a media sensation erupts over a murder case against Suzanne Stone, in which she is accused of persuading teenagers to kill her husband, Larry Maretto. Obsessed with becoming a TV personality, she viewed her husband's desire for children as an impediment to her career.
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Alex, a teenage skateboarder from Portland, accidentally kills a security guard. His otherwise typical life spirals into a dizzying new reality of confusion, cover-up and guilt, while the police investigate the death. “Through immaculate use of picture, sound and time, the director adds another panel to his series of pictures about disaffected, disconnected youth.” - Variety
Publisher
A24 / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Powerful story of love and redemption of an American professor, Arthur, who travels to Japan. He embarks on a spiritual and life-changing journey with Takumi, whom he found lost near the base of Mount Fuji. Takumi had gotten lost after attempting to commit suicide, now they fight for their survival while they are on their journey of reflection. Arthur's will to live reconnects him to his love for his wife.
8) Restless
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Coming-of-age love story between a young man who has given up on life and a beautiful, charming young girl who possesses a deep-felt love of life and the natural world. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.
Language
English
Description
Jamal Wallace is a talented young basketball player in New York City whose secret passion is writing. After an accidental meeting, Forrester, a reclusive novelist, becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor. Soon, both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship.
10) Milk
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, becomes a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he is elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, are shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blames his former colleagues for denying...