Gus Van Sant

Promised Land's Hard Sell

For Matt Damon and company, the message is the message.

Ann Arbor Film Festival 16mm Touring Program

The Columbine Effect

Thirteen years and a hundred school shootings later, why is Hollywood still obsessed with this one?

Youth Lagoon: Death By Moon In "July"

The video for Youth Lagoon's "July" is like one of Stephen King's short stories come to life. Not like one of the ones about giant rats or haunted hotel rooms. We mean his study pieces on the apocalypse. Something like "Night Surf," in which a group of ordinary teenagers survive a deadly plague, and ... More >>

Songs For A Future Generation: Top 10 B-52's Deep Cuts

The B-52's are the quintessential alternative/New Wave/jam band. They can be both metaphorical and fun at the same time. However, what makes them different from other New Wave bands is that lead singer Fred Schneider provides a unique sprechgesang style to the genre. The band met after having a few ... More >>

The 11 Best Female Rock Bassists of All Time

seanyseult.com​While there are and have been so many notable women in rock-and-roll, and we'd like to honor them all, we've chosen the specific starting point of recognizing rock's best female bassists. As a bassist, I looked up to nearly each and every one of these women as I learned the bass ... More >>

Top 10 Musician Movie Cameos

Rocks Off has no idea why Mick Jagger might prefer Performance to Ned Kelly.​Over recent years, Rocks Off has been repeatedly surprised by the quality performances of musicians in films. Naturally, there are some duds in the mix; even Mick Jagger himself, who starred in 1970's Ned Kelly, disow ... More >>

Living and Dying with Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor Over Sundance

How I turned some newspaper stories into a book which became a movie that caused those two guys to kiss

Best Films of 2008

Looking back at Che, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and many others, and looking ahead to 2009

Proposition Hate: Milk

Gus Van Sant's recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time

Summer Film Series — 100 Years of Gay History

Step Aside, Dame Edna

Army of One in Alexandra

A Russian grandmother visits the troops, and brings light to their misguided mission in Chechnya

Sk8er Boi: Paranoid Park

Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets

Control

Joy Division portrait proves the exception to the rock biopic drool

You Kill Me, Evan Almighty, American Silent Horror Collection and Mala Noche: The Criterion Collection

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

The Joy in the Bubble

Cannes 2007 was a success, but how many of its movies will you actually get to see?

We Aren't the World

How the Americans fared at Cannes.

Cannes d'Awards

Foreign films dominate this year at Cannes.

Palme d'Hoberman

Our one-man jury bestows honors on the best of Cannes 2007.

America Cannes

Art imitates life as U.S. directors command this year's fest, with only China rivaling for celluloid domination.

300

It's Spartan hotties versus Persian trannies in Zack Snyder's far-too-faithful Frank Miller adaptation

There's the Beef

Richard Linklater's ensemble polemic may just turn you off burgers for good

Coal Miner Mother of a Mess

In which we call bullshit on J.T. LeRoy's "essay" in the Oxford American's music issue

No Way Out

Last Days follows the final spiral of a tormented musician

Icky, Icky, Icky

Nicole Kidman falls in love with a ten-year-old boy -- sorry, her dead husband

Take a Hike

Gerry survives nicely on scant dialogue and ample images

Old Masters and Young Guns

Filmmaking in 2002 wasn't just for the boys

Money Men

Five years after Swingers, Jon Favreau just wanted to get a movie Made

Rewriting History

Gus Van Sant goes Good Will Hunting one more time with Finding Forrester

What a Long, Strange Trip

Denis Johnson's junkies drift along in Jesus' Son, and so do we

Year of Yearning

The old were bold in an era of Hollywood mainstream misses

Son of Psycho

Van Sant pumps fresh blood into his tribute to the classic

Backwoods Bin of Sin

Powerful Clay Pigeons scores with country-style noir

Getting Hooked, Brilliantly

With The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio becomes a star

Widows' Wonderland