Filmmaker Gus Van Sant cited for DUI

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PORTLAND, Ore. - Filmmaker Gus Van Sant, whose credits include "Finding Forrester" and "Drugstore Cowboy," has been arrested here on a drunken driving charge, police said.

Sgt. Brian Schmautz, Portland Police Bureau spokesman, said Van Sant, 54, was arrested at 1:48 a.m. Thursday. A breath test showed a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 percent, Schmautz said. That's more than twice the state limit, 0.08 percent.

An officer saw that the headlights on Van Sant's vehicle weren't on, Schmautz said. Van Sant, who lives in Portland, had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech, smelled of alcohol and failed the sobriety tests, Schmautz said.
Calls to his film company seeking comment were not immediately returned.
Van Sant also directed "My Own Private Idaho" and "Good Will Hunting." Several of his films have been set in Oregon, including "Elephant," about a high-school shooting, which won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. He has been filming "Paranoid Park" in and around the city.

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I was once directed as an actor by Gus Van Sant. He was a nice guy - a little odd but pleasant. I'm very disturbed that he allowed himself to do something so foolish as to drive drunk. This goes for anybody who does something like that, regardless of fame or obscurity.
 
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He should have been given a D.U.I.B.T.....

....Directing Under the Influence of Bela Tarr.














...yeah, I got nothin'.
 
damn, thats pretty disappointing... elephant is one of my favorite films, i've always kind of looked up to van sant, as a director at least.
 
cygnet74 said:
....Directing Under the Influence of Bela Tarr.














...yeah, I got nothin'.
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no bro, thats somethin.

(rimshot)

(mild laughter)

(awkward transition into next joke)

yeah.... ok you got nothin
 
haha, my last name's Sant--maybe I'll make the news one day...just not like that.

-Kegan
 
really?

really?

drummerboy678 said:
damn, thats pretty disappointing... elephant is one of my favorite films, i've always kind of looked up to van sant, as a director at least.
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Dude are you really disappointed by him? His private life has nothing to do with is artistic public life.

I don't care if he drives drunk every day and gets fetal injections while dining on endangererd animals.

It has nothing to do with his directing.

-rook
 
rook said:
Dude are you really disappointed by him? His private life has nothing to do with is artistic public life.
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Agreed.


We're now teetering on the edge of deletion... and that's fine with me.
 
i don't think it's that easy to separate the films from the filmmaker when you are talking about someone who clearly invests a lot of his being into his work. his own beliefs, emotions, strengths, and weaknesses intrinsically become a part of a subjective artistic expression. i know i won't look at the opening driving scene from elephant the same way anymore.

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the obvious correlate is mel gibson, whose personality seems right in line with an aggressive, singular vision that is often theatrical and prone to a certain brutality.
 
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HAHA...yeah I hear you. I actually like his work but I agree...why is this "news"?

Oh wait, it's not. It's gossip about the cool kids in school.

And oh my god, did you see what Paris and Lindsey did yesterday?

Please shoot me.

-rook
 
rook said:
HAHA...yeah I hear you. I actually like his work but I agree...why is this "news"?

Oh wait, it's not. It's gossip about the cool kids in school.

And oh my god, did you see what Paris and Lindsey did yesterday?

Please shoot me.

-rook
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:kali: :nads:
 
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