Shot in grainy black-and-white 16mm for $25,000 when Gus Van Sant was 33, 1985’s “Mala Noche” was a transporting do-it-yourself, proto-slacker daydream. It still is, actually. Things happen in “Mala ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we’re revisiting 1986’s Mala Noche, the directorial debut of New Queer Cinema filmmaker Gus Van Sant. It’s ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

Most movie buffs were introduced to Gus Van Sant via his 1989 arthouse hit Drugstore Cowboy, a funny, moving '70s period piece about strung-out hustlers and crooks in the Pacific Northwest. In the ...

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections — including a shared ...

Gus Van Sant’s ultralow-budget directorial debut, made in 1985 for less than a shoestring, is a gritty, ambling tale of a young Portland, Oregon, man falling for a good-looking Mexican immigrant who ...