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Synopsis: In this gritty drama executive-produced by Gus Van Sant, a teenaged would-be stock-car driver gets more than he bargained for when he makes a pit stop in Las Vegas to earn a little cash. Almost as soon as he arrives in the city, high-school dropout JohRead More
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Before "Finding Forrester," for example, Van Sant was attached to a number of smaller, unconventional projects - including an adaptation of J.T. Leroy's cult novel "Sarah" and a biography of controversial cartoonist John Callahan, which never found proper financing. "Gerry" is more of the latter sort, only this time it got off the ground.
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An officer saw that Van Sant's headlights weren't on, Portland Police Bureau spokesman Sgt. Brian Schmautz said. Van Sant had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech, smelled of alcohol and failed sobriety tests, Schmautz said.
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Instead Van Sant and his cinematographer Harris Savides have come up with a visual correlative for literary naturalism: for long stretches their camera simply follows students as they walk around the high school campus. These aren't self-conscious tracking shots of the kind Martin Scorsese used in GoodFellas (1990; in the famous entry into the Copacabana nightclub, for example) in which our awareness of the milieu is heightened by the elaborately timed choreography that brings characters and actions into range just as the camera sweeps past. The artificiality functions in GoodFellas expressionistically to tell you that the gangsters move in a created underworld, a big greased machine.
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Portland Police Sergeant Brian Schmautz said the officer who pulled Van Sant over noticed a strong smell of alcohol. Van Sant was ... reportedly slurring his words. He failed several field sobriety tests, was arrested and taken to Central Precinct.
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No one seems to have cared for Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of "Psycho." What was the point of hoping lightning would strike twice, wonders Tolchinsky. "Changing it would mean suggesting that your own son or daughter get plastic surgery."
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