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village voice > film > Paranoid Park Returns Gus Van Sant to his Roots by J. Hoberman

The House Next Door found this 3/7/2008 on villagevoice.com

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 ...