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It’s rare to see a film where it’s actively difficult to empathize with a kid who has experienced a lifetime’s worth of trauma, but screenwriter Jason Lew somehow pulls it off. You see, Enoch’s parents were killed in a car crash that put him in a coma for three months, which makes him obsessed with death, but that mostly translates to him donning a twee-forward goth wardrobe and adopting a shitty personality. Imagine if Harold and Maude were written by bots and you essentially have Restless, an insufferably precious nightmare of a film about an insolent teenager, Enoch (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis), who regularly crashes funerals and falls in love with a terminally ill girl (Mia Wasikowska). Nevertheless, Van Sant is a quintessentially American director, creating stellar, personal work alongside indefensible dreck. Finally, his highs are very high, and his lows are disastrously low, creating an uneven list befitting an uneven body of work. Also, many of his “failures” are often more compelling than his middling entries (as a result, this list rewards ambitious misfires over bland mediocrities). For one thing, much of his feature work can’t exactly be considered “Van Sant films” in the auteurist sense, as they often sport anonymous direction and are at the mercy of truly bad scripts. Needless to say, ranking Van Sant’s oeuvre presents a few challenges. He later followed that up with a YA adaptation, an Oscar-winning biopic, three work-for-hire projects, and finally his latest film, the biopic Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot.
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He returned to independent cinema in the early-aughts, directing a trilogy that employed European slow-cinema techniques in uniquely American films. He eventually moved into mainstream fare, with an enormous commercial hit ( Good Will Hunting) followed by a couple disappointments ( Psycho, Finding Forrester). Starting from his adopted home of Portland, Oregon, Van Sant began as a fiercely independent director, creating cult films like Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. To put it mildly, Gus Van Sant’s three-decade feature-film career covers a lot of ground.