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by Wayne Melton
“Goodwill Hunting” director Gus Van Sant’s latest film, “Milk,” about the openly gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, is scheduled to be released at the end of the month. The film, which stars Sean Penn in the title role, has been timed to maximize its Oscar potential and will capitalize on the interest in this year’s election. (California, for one, voted on a proposition to ban gay marriage.) But Van Sant’s films are not always interested in such big stars and broad appeal. As his previous outing, “Paranoid Park,” released on DVD in October, reveals, the director also has an interest in unconventional modes of storytelling and unknown actors.
This DVD review first appeared on StyleWeekly.com
It’s startling to hear Kurt Cobain speak in “About a Son,” a pseudo-documentary about the late rock star that blends cinematography inspired by his life with interview recordings taken about a year before his death. A beloved figure in the history of pop, he sounds surprisingly normal, especially as he talks about how it felt to grow up in his small hometown of Aberdeen, Wash. Read the rest of this entry »
