Oscar-nominated writer and director Gus Van Sant was a key figure on the American independent film scene of the 1980s and 1990s, offering poetic yet clear-eyed excursions through America's seamy underbelly in films like “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989) and “My Own Private Idaho” (1991). Openly gay, Van Sant dealt unflinchingly with marginalized subcultures. Even as he segued into the…
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