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Preview & Trailer: "Paranoid Park"
Film Gecko — “Paranoid Park” hits theaters in limited release tomorrow. It stars Gabe Nevins as Alex, a nice teenager who likes to spend his free time skateboarding with his best friend Jared (Jake Miller). But when they get involved with the death of a security guard, their lives take a much more serious turn. According to IMDB.com, this is the first film for both Nevins and Miller. Rated R for some disturbing images, language and sexual content, this movie is directed by Gus Van Sant, who also directed “Good Will ...

Paranoid Park: Take 2
The House Next Door — ... that the film is a "triumph," but a "modestly scaled" one. The error is forgivable. Van Sant himself has made much of the fact that the script was written in two days and clocked in at 56 pages; the novel is not exactly instilled with literary gravitas. The casting was largely done over MySpace . So Paranoid may feel like a small film in a way, but this patronizing judgment is as great a disservice to the film as anything imaginable. It is a triumph, yes, but a giant one -- a triumph of aesthetics and a triumph of character study, the one feeding into the other. Some might ...