Other bright spots included a violently pitch-black marital comedy ( The War of the Roses ), a bleak-yet-cool junkie movie (
Drugstore Cowboy ), and even a film about an advertising man who grows a second head on his shoulder ( How to Get Ahead in Advertising ).
Within the programme Retrospective of Greatness will be shown the film
Drugstore Cowboy by Gas Van Sant, and the guest of the festival will be actor Mat Dillon.
His press secretary's dismissive characterization of the Soviet leader was that of a "
drugstore cowboy" -- someone who dressed the part but wasn't the real deal.
Who directed
Drugstore Cowboy starring Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch?
Her film credits include Secret in Their Eyes, Black or White,
Drugstore Cowboy, Point Break, Rudy, Mr.
"The novelist, in some cases, would desire to be less stuck in a room with a typewriter, and I have heard novelists say that it would be great to write in images like the film director, out in the field with legions of extras, and explosions and stuntmen and real sex scenes,'' Van Sant, whose films include "Good Will Hunting'' and "
Drugstore Cowboy,'' wrote in a recent email.
The new volume includes filmmaker and director Gus Van Sant, 59, who spent some time in his youth living in Oregon and returned to Portland in the late 1980s to live and work while making movies such as "
Drugstore Cowboy."
Leyser incorporates rare archival photos and interviews as well as new ones with luminaries like punk poet-singer Patti Smith (who admits to borrowing lyrics from him) and director Gus Van Sant (who cast Burroughs in
Drugstore Cowboy for authenticity).
I spent the seventh and eighth grades there, showing up the first day in a pair of
drugstore cowboy boots.
Think of "Mala Noche," his first film; "
Drugstore Cowboy"; "My Own Private Idaho"; "Good Will Hunting," his most widely known film; "Finding Forrester"; and "Last Days."
Drugstore Cowboy (18) Gus Van Sant's bleak tale of junkie losers with Matt Dillon.
In Gus Van Sant's movie "
Drugstore Cowboy", a character who is addicted to prescription drugs says something like: "Most people don't know how they're going to feel in the next five minutes.