November 2012
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In 1997, independent filmmaker Gus Van Sant directed an unknown actor-writer named Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting, which launched Affleck and his buddy Matt Damon to stardom (and won them a screenplay Oscar). Fifteen years later, Van Sant, 60 (Promised Land), and Affleck, 40 (Argo), arrived Nov. 20 at The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Director Roundtable as peers, both riding awards buzz for...
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“When I went to film school we had to do three short films,” stated the filmmaker who sought to obtain his masters in directing at the American Film Institute, “so I started reading the short stories of my favourite authors. The first film I did at AFI was called Fortune Cookie.” The tale, written by Hulbert Selby, Jr., is “about a salesman who gets addicted to fortunes, and can’t make a sale...
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