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Gus Van Sant Recalls Getting Benched for ‘Good Will Hunting’ and the Surprising Resonance of School Shooter Drama ‘Elephant’


Gus Vant Sant looked back on his indelible career during a roving conversation with artist and actor Vito Schnabel.

“In the next 45 minutes, we’re about to hear Gus speak more than he has in the last 40 years,” said Vito Schnabel, the art world scion who is increasingly turning his head toward Hollywood, told a crowd at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival last week. He was there to moderate a conversation with American heavyweight filmmaker Gus Van Sant, who just directed Schnabel (and a pack of actors barreling toward Emmy nominations) in “Feud: Capote vs. In his review at the time, critic Roger Ebert noted the film’s depiction of “implacable, poker-faced, flat, uninflected death,” one that would hopefully inspire some soul searching among the generations that would become affected by this type of violence.

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