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The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few directors have revisited their earliest concerns with such vigor. Van Sant's debut, the 1985 Mala Noche , was a moody drizzle of images evoking the Portland skid-row convenience-store manager's hopeless infatuation with a ...
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Paranoid Park: Take 3
The House Next Door — ... "It can't be accidental that ... Nevins ... bears a striking resemblance to the subject of Correggio's Portrait of a Young Man ." More modestly, J. Hoberman compares his "clear, grave gaze" to that of "a Renaissance princeling." This is a nice way of saying that Van Sant's cast—MySpace darlings, all suitably vapid—project nothing but their own unselfconscious prettiness. Van Sant's gaze is as coolly, sexually appraising as Larry Clark's; the difference is that Clark's sk8r opus— Wassup Rockers? —didn't fetishize its subjects, aside from their bodies. Van Sant's teens can't ...

Rumors: Shake-Up Inside HBO?
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ADVISORY: Light Posting Due To Illness
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RIP: Charlton Heston
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SAG And AMPTP Will Negotiate On Saturday
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Awards Season Schedules
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ADVISORY: No Posting Until Tonight
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