Gus Van Sant is one of America's most original and celebrated filmmakers, whose credits include three films already considered classics: Drugstore Cowboy, which anticipated the current 90s revival; My Own Private Idaho, with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves; and To Die For, a black comedy that was a critical and box-office success. With Pink, Gus Van Sant brings his unique and playful genius to the novel, and the result is both delirious and disarmingly tender. In Sasquatch, Oregon, Spunky Davis, middle-aged maker of infomercials, is trying to find his next assignment, finish the screenplay that he hopes will bring him Hollywood glory, and deal with the death of his friend and favorite infomercial presenter, the teen idol Felix Arroyo. Enter two young aspiring filmmakers, Jack and Matt, who captivate Spunky--especially as Jack bears an uncanny resemblance to the late Felix. But Jack and Matt are not what they appear to be--and are about to take Spunky to the mysterious realm known as Pink, where time and loss can be recovered. With its riot of typefaces, footnotes and drawings (by the author), its trenchant and ironic deconstruction of youth culture and filmmaking, and its charmingly innocent sensibility, Pink is an absolute delight.

Pink

Literature & Fiction

Van Sant, Gus

United States

Nan A. Talese

Gus Van Sant goes from auteur to author in an brilliant, inventive, and endlessly entertaining first novel that reads like a Warholian mix of Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins. In the town of Sasquatch, Oregon, Spunky Davis, middle-aged maker of infomercials, is trying to find his next assignment, finish the screenplay that he hopes will bring him Hollywood glory, and deal with the death of his friend and favorite infomercial presenter, teen idol Felix Arroyo. Enter two young aspiring filmmakers, Jack and Matt, whom Spunky finds strangely familiar--especially as Jack bears an uncanny resemblance to the late Felix. But Jack and Matt are not what they appear to be; they are messengers from a dimension beyond time known as Pink, and they invite Spunky to join them on their voyage of transcendence and recovery. Using a delirious array of voices signified by different typefaces, a flip cartoon that animates the novel's action, footnotes and line drawings, Gus Van Sant turns the novel into an explosively visual experience, a captivating combination of texture and text. As original and involving as any of Van Sant's films, Pink is both a hip, comic deconstruction of our image-obsessed culture and a genuinely tender story on the classic themes of love, time, and loss.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

These two novels have both been made into films. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" is an epic of cowgirls, FBI agents and ecstatic whooping. "My Own Private Idaho" charts the pilgrimage of a narcoleptic hustler who is searching for his long-lost mother in a world absent of love.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues/My Own Private Idaho/2 Screen Plays in 1 Volume

Arts & Photography

Robbins,Tom

Performing Arts

Faber&Faber

A first novel, by the film-maker Gus Van Sant. It tells the story of a maker of "infomercials" who lives in the Pacific Northwest, and his close encounters with two young men. He is attracted by their strange aura, especially as one of them reminds him of a young star who died of a drug overdose.

Faber Faber Inc

Pink is the first novel by film-maker Gus Van Sant, whose films include Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho and Good Will Hunting. Pink tells the story of industrial film-maker Spunky Davis and his close encounters with two strange young men whose disturbing aura attracts Spunky's curiosity - especially as one of them strongly reminds him of a dazzling young star of the infomercial world who has recently died tragically of a drug overdose. Gradually, they draw Spunky into their world, revealing to him the secrets of the Pink dimension.Pink is suffused with a grief for the temporary nature of life, for the breaking of connections, for the difficulties of coping with inconsolable loss. It is also a tale of hope and rapture - one told with the aching tenderness of My Own Private Idaho, as well as the wickedly ironic tone of To Die For.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Gerry

Matt Damon

ARVO PäRT

Savides, Harris

Wolf, Dany

Affleck, Casey

Miramax Home Entertainment

Francesco Clemente has, since the 1980s, been a leading artist in the international revival of expressionist figure painting and sculpture. Clemente's subjects--rooted in both the physical and the surreal, spiritual worlds--create a vast body of work that appeals to diverse audiences. Clemente draws upon a pan-historic web of impulses, mediating among the myriad cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, Byzantium, Europe, India and America. Stylistically his work recalls the Italian Renaissance, Indian miniatures, European Romanticism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Clemente's widespread cultural interests and nomadic lifestyle--New York is his home but he spends part of each year in Italy, India and the New Mexico desert--have deeply affected his art. This lavishly produced catalogue accompanies the first major survey devoted to the painter.

Clemente

Corso, Gregory

MEHTA, GITA

Jain, Jyotindra

Clemente, Francesco

Ricard, René

Houser, Craig

CREELEY, Robert

Pellizzi, Francesco

Foye, Raymond

Individual Artists

Guggenheim Museum

https://twinpalms.com/books-artists/108-portraits/ The film director’s debut collection of portrait-photographs. Every subject is photographed in a frontal pose, taken at a medium-shot angle with minimal lighting, thereby bringing out both the chiaroscuro effect of light and shadow and the expressiveness of his subjects’ faces and bodies. Gus Van Sant began taking photographs for the auditions of Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. The casual picture-taking quickly developed into a full-fledged project, encompassing a Who’s Who of twentieth-century cinema and capturing the exuberance and hedonism of a decade.

108 Portraits

History & Criticism

Twin Palms Pub

One Hundred-Eight Portraits

His life changed history. His courage changedlives. In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to theSan Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming thefirst openly gay man to be voted into major publicoffice in America. His victory was not just avictory for gay rights; he forged coalitions acrossthe political spectrum. From senior citizens tounion workers, Harvey Milk changed the verynature of what it means to be a fighter for humanrights and became, before his untimely death in1978, a hero for all Americans.
Academy Award® winner Sean Penn stars asHarvey Milk, with Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones,Josh Brolin as Dan White, Diego Luna as JackLira, and James Franco as Scott Smith, under thedirection of Academy Award® nominee Gus VanSant, filmed on location in San Francisco, from anoriginal screenplay by Dustin Lance Black.
This Newmarket Shooting Script® Book includes:
<ul>
<li>Exclusive introduction by director Gus Van Sant</li>
<li>Complete Shooting Script</li>
<li>Scene Notes by Dustin Lance Black</li>
<li>An exclusive conversation with Black, Van Sant, and Cleve Jones, one of the original political activists with Harvey Milk</li>
<li>Color photo section</li>
<li>Complete cast and crew credits</li>
</ul>
Also read Milk: A Pictorial History featuring oralhistories, archival photographs, and the story ofthe making of the film.

Milk: The Shooting Script

Black, Dustin Lance

Movies

NEWMARKET PRESS

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