I’m still waiting for Gus Van Sant’s new movie, Paranoid Park (2007), to come out!

It’s been awhile now since it opened at Cannes, and still nothing! I know it didn’t have a distributor at that point, but the great reviews changed that pretty quickly. So when is it going to actually be released to the non-French!

The movie is in the vein of Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003) and Last Days (2005) in that it’s about the “trials of youth”. It follows the lives of some skaters in Portland, Oregon after one of them accidentally kills a guy. (Gus actually did an open casting in Portland. My friend Melissa got a call back, but then got shutout I’m sorry to say.)

To make matters worse, The Hollywood Reporter said that Gus “has made one of his best movies yet, recapturing the magic of his fine earlier works such as ‘Mala Noche’ and ‘Drugstore Cowboy.’”

Enough – distributorture!

Lance

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