Gus Van Sant Touch: A Thematic Study--Drugstore Cowboy, Milk and Beyond (Paperback)

from SimmonsFan

I have to say first and foremost that I'm a fan of most of Gus Van Sant's movies. I was pleasantly surprised by this book as it was more of an indepth look at the common threads amongst Van Sant's films while discussing his influences as well. There was more to this book than Van Sant and his fil...

from annesion

Having watched most of Van Sant's movie's I was familiar with the amount of homosexual interplay his work has. I was not aware that his was going to be the major theme of this book however. This book was as another reviewer described "quasi-academic". It seemed to be clutching onto the emerging Q...

from GAGVLibrary

This is the sort of quasi-academic analysis that revels in words like "intertextuality" and "fatherness." If you don't try to read it too closely you can follow a feel for what the author is saying about Van Sant's body of work and about other works he sees as paralleling Van Sant movies. Not hav...

from ClifSven

Being a fan of van Sant's work I found this book more than a bit esoteric and quite pretentious. I was disappointed in it and would not recommend it to anyone.

from HotWolfie

If you're a fan of Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk, Elephant, etc...) then you would definitely enjoy reading this book. It's a pretty in-depth look at the recurring themes of Van Sant's projects, interpretations of his work, and the flimmaker's influences. This book, though not a simple re...