
Gus Van Sant
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Raised in Louisville and later Portland after a childhood of moves, he studied painting before switching to cinema at the Rhode Island School of Design. Early work on Pacific Northwest commercials funded his debut feature Mala Noche (1985), a black-white study of a gay clerk and a Mexican immigrant that earned festival praise. He then built a reputation with titles such as Drugstore Cowboy (1989),…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
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The films and series they directed.



