Gus Van Sant's 2000 Finding Forrester was quickly billed " Good Will Hunting in the Hood.

The two starred together for the first time ( along with Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman and Joan Plowright ) in 1990's I Love You to Death and again in Gus Van Sant's avant-garde film My Own Private Idaho.

Also in 1991 the Aleka's Attic track " Too Many Colors " was lent to the soundtrack of Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho a film which included Phoenix in a starring role.

Fellow film composer Danny Elfman adapted Herrmann's music for Psycho for use in director Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake and borrowed from Herrmann's " Mountaintop / Sunrise " theme, from Journey to the Center of the Earth, for his main Batman theme.

He is also known for his roles in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite ( 1995 ), Ahdar Ru ' afo in Star Trek: Insurrection ( 1998 ), and Gus Van Sant's Finding Forrester ( 2000 ), where he once again played nemesis to Connery.

He has earned positive reviews for his portrayals of various individuals: a troubled teen in Gus Van Sant's To Die For ( 1995 ) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublemaker in Oliver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts ( 1997 ), the cruel Roman emperor Commodus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator ( 2000 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ), a conflicted priest in Quills ( 2000 ), a washed-up baseball player in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs ( 2002 ), the irresolute husband of a superstar-skater in the widely panned It's All About Love in 2003, a lovestruck farmer in Shyamalan's The Village ( 2004 ), a disillusioned cameraman in Terry George's Hotel Rwanda ( 2004 ), and heroic firefighter in Ladder 49 ( 2004 ).

It is the first film of Van Sant's " Death Trilogy ", three films based on deaths that occurred in real life, and is succeeded by Elephant and Last Days.

She achieved greater recognition playing opposite Matt Damon in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting ( 1997 ), a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award, among others.

The misunderstanding was mentioned at the end of Milk, Gus Van Sant's 2008 biopic of Harvey Milk.

Van Sant was born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States ( US ), the son of Betty ( née Seay ) and Gus Green Van Sant, Sr ; Gus Van Sant's father was a clothing manufacturer and traveling salesman who rapidly worked his way into middle class prosperity.

As a result of his father's job, the family moved continually during Van Sant's childhood.

Van Sant's artistic leanings took him to the Rhode Island School of Design in 1970, where his classmates included David Byrne and other members of Talking Heads.

Cowboy met with great critical success ; in addition to furthering Van Sant's reputation as a gifted director, it helped to revive the career of Matt Dillon, who played the junkie leader of the gang.

Drugstore Cowboys exploration of the lives of those living on society's outer fringes, as well as its Portland setting, were mirrored in Van Sant's next effort, the similarly acclaimed My Own Private Idaho ( 1991 ).

Van Sant's 1995 film To Die For helped to restore his luster.

It was Van Sant's first effort for a major studio ( Columbia ), and its success paved the way for further projects of the director's choosing.

The same year, he served as executive producer for Larry Clark's Kids ; it was a fitting assignment, due to both the film's subject matter and the fact that Clark's photographs of junkies had served as reference points for Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.

Critical response was mixed but generally positive, singling out Van Sant's skill at melding the performance styles of first-time actor Brown and Hollywood legend Connery.

The finished film provoked strong reactions from audiences at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, who either embraced or rejected Van Sant's aesthetic decision not to offer a definitive rationale for his characters ' homicidal tendencies.

Van Sant's 2011 project Restless was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Elephant is the second film in Van Sant's " Death Trilogy " — the first being Gerry ( 2002 ) and the third being Last Days ( 2005 ) — in which all three are based on actual events.

Elephant was filmed in Van Sant's hometown, Portland, Oregon in late 2002, on the former campus of Whitaker Middle School ( previously Adams High School ).

After the lost election, Van Buren dropped Crawford, and instead supported Andrew Jackson to be the next presidential candidate.

The next day, Dillinger, Van Meter and Hamilton were confronted by authorities in Hastings, Minnesota, in a rolling gunfight.

After Kieft left for Serie A club Pisa the next season, Van Basten solidified his position as the team's main attacker.

In their third game, already qualified for the next round, Van Basten selected non-regulars such as Maarten Stekelenburg, Wilfred Bouma and Ibrahim Afellay for the starting lineup against Romania, a match the ' Oranje ' won 2 – 0.

The next year Khleber M. Van Zandt established Tidball, Van Zandt, and Company, which became Fort Worth National Bank in 1884.

Salvador Dalí and Man Ray in Paris, on June 16, 1934 making " wild eyes " for photographer Carl Van VechtenFor the next 20 years in Montparnasse, Man Ray was a distinguished photographer.

Van Vliet spent the next few days overdubbing the vocals.

An old Armenian proverb in the same sense is " Van in this world, paradise in the next.

" This phrase has been slightly modified in Turkish as dünyada Van, ahirette iman or " Van for this world, faith for the next.

Since he loathed this prospect, he hid, spending the next few days drinking at the home of a friend on Van Ness Avenue.

With the universal success of " Good Vibrations ", Capitol Records had no choice but to back Wilson up for his next project, originally called Dumb Angel but soon re-titled SMiLE, which collaborator Van Dyke Parks would describe as a " teenage symphony to God ".

The next known explorer to traverse the county was John Van Meter ( 1683 – 1745 ) in the 1730s.

Over the next four years, settlers flocked to parts of Lima, Springfield, and Van Buren Townships.

After a long chase with studio security and reclaiming Suzanne from a fictional Scream 4 in production, Jay and Silent Bob end up in Jason Biggs and James Van Der Beek's dressing room, where they quickly realize that these are the actors that will play the roles of Bluntman and Chronic, next to Jay and Silent Bob.

Van Gogh lived in the small carriagehouse next to the beautiful pastors house, which is well preserved and visited by art lovers from all over the world.

Over the next few years, the band alternated album releases and touring ( see Van Halen concert tours ).

Van Halen's next lead singer was Gary Cherone, frontman of the then-defunct Boston-based band Extreme, a group which had enjoyed some popular success in the early 1990s.

In the council, he is seated next to another cabinet minister, Freya Van den Bossche, who was elected a municipal councillor as well.

Van Sant, longing to return to more intimate production methods, decided to leave behind big-budget studio filmmaking for his next two features.

It took Gerry over a year to make it to theaters, in which time Van Sant began production on his next film, the controversial Elephant.

Van Duin believed that the dam would breach within the next 10 or 20 years.