Brad Peterson, Daniel Liu, Gabe Nevins
An unsolved murder at Portland's infamous Paranoid Park brings detectives to a local high school, propelling a young skater into a moral odyssey where he must not only deal with the pain and disconnec...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 7, 2008
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May 19, 2009'Paranoid Park' is another minimalistic film, with mostly amateus actors, from the critically acclaimed director Gus Van Sant. With a filmography consisting such films as 'Good Will Hunting', which is absolutely one of my favourites, and 'Drugstore Cowboy' and now with his latest...( read more)
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May 17, 2009A stirring, subtle, visually remarkable piece by Gus Van Sant. If you saw flaws in Elephant, this rectifies them and expands on its companion piece's richness. Though the awful acting still remains, the situations Van Sant creates house them well - these kids aren't navigating pa...( read more)
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February 10, 2009It doesn't hit you until far after you've left the theater. This is a tragic, haunting portrayal of contemporary American youth, and a brilliant one.
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November 24, 2008Gus Van Sant, an iconic indie auteur best known for "Good Will Hunting" and the upcoming "Milk", found his cast for "Paranoid Park" via MySpace and a local newspaper. It's completely refreshing to see teenagers who look like teenagers, talk like teenagers, and act like teenagers....( read more)
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October 30, 2008Excellent stuff. a very dreamy and intimate portrayal of adolescence. Didn't fall into any kind of cliche resolution I was expecting and the film is about much more than its central incident. Love the Nino Rota music and the Scorpio Rising-like 8 mm footage of the skateboarding...( read more)
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November 17, 2009A fine adaptation of an excellent novel. The typical Hollywood treatment would have lost all that was best in the novel but director Van Sant manages to put most of it on the screen and doesn't cop out on the non-standard ending. Fine cinematography and editing. A strangely eclec...( read more)
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November 9, 2009This is a film that had a lot of potential, but it didn't do anything for me.
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October 24, 2009Paranoid Park: Si bien su Argumento es muy atrapante...... a mi no logro atraparme en la cinta..... a Medida que va pasando ...la filmación, se va notando el Toque de Gus Van Sant... Que vuelve para atras como Elephant.... sinceramente yo esparaba más de Paranoid Park.....
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October 12, 2009Some kind of Drugstore Cowboy tale for the kids of Elephant, this minimalistic story goes almost masterpiece thanks to a very clever and poetic visual and sound editing. Dreamlike, captivating... the amateurish acting gives it some authenticity, but sometimes break the "spell"......( read more)
Critic Reviews
March 21, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
March 14, 2008
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
In the space of 78 minutes, Mr. Van Sant and his cinematographer, the peerless Christopher Doyle, manage to suffuse that state with haunting sadness, ubiquitous danger, pulsing power and flickers of h... full review
March 5, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press
Just when it looked like Van Sant was finally ready to present a movie real people might want to watch, Paranoid Park abandons universality and fetishizes the generality of skater boys. full review
March 3, 2008
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
Paranoid Park is a supernaturally perfect fusion of Van Sant's current conceptual-art-project head-trip aesthetic and Blake Nelson's finely tuned first-person 'young adult' novel. full review
February 28, 2008
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The result, a defiant slap at slick Hollywood formula, is mesmerizing. full review
December 28, 2007
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
Transposed from a novel by Blake Nelson, the boy is played by newcomer Gabe Nevins with all the complexity and three-dimensionality of a magazine centrefold. full review
November 21, 2007
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
Paranoid Park's triumph ... is its aesthetic design. full review
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