Is that his mug shot? Classy.

Good for GVS! That guy is the real deal, making challenging, artistic films in this era of Pirates of the Carribean III. Once you get in the zone (i.e. ready to let a film so some slow work on your brain), those recent films can be quite amazing. OK—I still haven't sat through Gerry without use of the fast forward button, but Last Days was tremendously powerful, I thought. I think it's great he got this weird award.

Yeah, he's fine, and good for him and his weird award. I don't have anything against the guy; I just don't think his films are all that impressive, either. And this is just kind of exacerbated by people in Portland acting like he's the be-all end-all contemporary cinema auteur, which is fairly annoying.

To my eye, he gets less credit in Portland than in most other places, as people here do the old "blase about the local celeb" thing, rather than really engaging with his movies. Usually whenever I hear people here talk about him, it's with an eyeroll (unless it's it's an always-gushy souce, like Portland Monthly or celeb-fucky Style pages). I find that people usually take the opposite tact, showing that they refuse to be impressed (yeah right) by celebrity, and gloss over a pretty amazing (and long) career. (I certainly know that happens around the office when his name is brought up. Am I right?)

Trust me, Chas. I'm really overrated.

I heard that Gus van Sant got the unknown actors via advertising in "myspace" under "Paranoid Park".

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