Young Death Quadrilogy

Here are the trailers from Gus Van Sant's Young Death Quadrilogy.

Gerry


Elephant


Last Days


Paranoid Park


Have lots of Lithium on hand.

Not Too Novel a Hypothesis

Norman Mailer's theory on casting actors:

He liked to take people who were able to talk themselves in and out of trouble, and cast them in situations which he tried to make sufficiently intense so that they would not be too aware of the camera. Whether they had ever acted before, did not often concern him. It was his theory--not too novel an hypothesis--that many people who had never acted, and could never begin to act on stage without training, still had several extraordinary characterizations they could bring film provided they spoke their own words and had no script to remember.

This is not overly interesting, but it is worth watching nonetheless...at least part of it.