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...Hope, New Hampshire, who persuades a smitten teenager (Joaquin Phoenix) to try murdering her husband (Matt Dillon). The film, based on Joyce Maynard's novel, is a classy collision between the chipper misanthropy of scriptwriter Buck Henry and the eroticizing of dopey young sociopaths found in director Gus Van Sant's earlier work (Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho...
...read Henry's script and panted for the part. When Meg Ryan bowed out, Kidman rang up Van Sant and announced, "I am destined to play Suzanne." Recalls the director: "In a way, it's just something you would say. But I took it a different way, like she really was destined to play the role. When she showed up, she was very prepared and worked very hard on her own to develop the character...
...Kidman was flattered. "Even though Suzanne's totally wild and has a completely different moral code from the rest of us, I think there was something really cool about her." It's a unique perspective, but then Kidman says she also really liked To Die For director Gus van Sant's last film, the universally loathed Even Cowgirls Get the Blues...
...When Father Was Away on Business." Made in 1992, "Arizona Dream," has the potential to be a hip dissection of American pop culture. But Kusturica is more interested in exploiting the film's visceral visual power. His shots of the American Southwest achieve the finesse of Gus Van Sant's landscapes. Iggy Pop's musical score enlivens the hazy atmosphere...
...American Repertory Theatre's production of Henry IV, Part Two--inspired somewhat by Gus Van Sant's "My Own Private Idaho"--paints a timeless landscape for Shakespeare's original play; it collapses then and now with witty juxtapositions of different moments of history. This potpourri of costumes (Gabrielle Berry), props and motifs is no more unusual than performing a play in the late 20th century, which was written in the late 16th and set in the late 14th. And though this odd, albeit very effective, hodge podge of disparate time periods creates a certain ahistoricity, it succeeds remarkably...