Gus Van Sant
1) Pink
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The director of the motion picture, Good Will Hunting, offers an unconventional debut novel, complete with footnotes, varying typefaces, line drawings, and a flip-book cartoon, about the encounter of a TV producer with another dimension. Reprint.
3) To die for
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A black comedy in which an amoral and ambitious news personality seduces a teenager to convince him to murder her husband.
4) To die for
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c]
Language
English
Description
Suzanne Stone has always dreamed of being on TV and she's dead-set on making that dream come true. But there is just one obstacle: Larry Maretto, her husband. So, Suzanne convinces a love-struck teenager to get Larry out of the way for good. To Die For is the most critically acclaimed comedy of the year.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
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 Jama's unlikely mentor. Soon, both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship.
7) Milk
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him 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, were shot to death...
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
Mike - a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him - and Scott - the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire - embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student, he's the kid who cleans the floors! Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who's failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
A young working-class genius is hauled back from the brink of self-destruction by a gifted counselor.
10) Psycho
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Criminal on the run, Marion Crane (Anne Heche) takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn)--a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his 'mother.' Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts inquiries from her sister (Julianne Moore) and a private investigator (William H. Macy). They both soon discover the morbid bond linking Norman to his mysterious 'mother' at the Bates Motel"--Container...
11) Drugstore cowboy
Publisher
Avenue Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A gritty, uncompromising depiction of a pack of early 1970's drugstore-robbing junkies as they travel around looking to score.
A band of drug addicts, led by a husband and wife team, resort to robbing drugstores to stay high. They are successful in avoiding capture until their luck begins to run out, and the husband has to accept the fact that he must give up drugs to survive.