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My Own Private Idaho
Film Description Gus Van Sant's cult film features River Phoenix in his most indelible role as gay hustler Mike Waters, and Keanu Reeves manages something approaching a performance as the object of his love. And any film that ends by wishing you a nice day is definitely worth a perusal. At times pretentious, but always riveting, this audacious classic remained Sant's best film until Elephant came along.
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DVD Extras Two discs; The Making Of My Own Private Idaho; Kings of the Road: - Film critic Paul Arthur discusses Gus Van Sant's adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV and Orson Welle's Falstaff in the film; Conversations with Gus Van Sant and Todd Haynes, Laurie Parker and Rain Phoenix and JT Leroy and Jonathan Caouette; Deleted scenes.
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Review by Alex Davidson on 7th May 2005 Gus Van Sant's cult classic is at once moving, innovative, shocking, amusing and pretentious, making My Own Private Idaho an exciting film rather than a completely successful one. In its tale of a narcoleptic gay hustler Mike (River Phoenix), who falls in love with a straight rent boy (Keanu Reeves, whose typically wooden turn adds to the unreal ambiance), Van Sant throws in audacious moments (the cover photos of a selection of top shelf magazines start arguing amongst themselves), ambitious if perplexing interludes (the narrative suddenly lapses into lengthy dialogues from Henry IV Part I, and foolhardy flashes of self-indulgence (the last words of the film consist of a cue card wishing that the audience has a nice day). Without this film, the River Phoenix myth would never have existed; he is riveting in a difficult part, playing Mike with an obstinate vulnerability, and the massive potential he displays here renders his early death just two years after this film all the more poignant. View more reviews by Alex Davidson
Article - "Elephant"
by Howard Schumann
Winner of the Golden Palm at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, Gus Van Sant's Elephant is a brilliant and deeply affecting film that makes a courageous attempt to grasp the malaise of today's youth culture. Van Sant does not attempt to explain Columbine or uncover its u... View article in full
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