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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0796019813846
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Ifc
Manufacturer: Ifc
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Ifc
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 8246
Studio: Ifc
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Description:
An unsolved murder at Portland's infamous Paranoid Park brings detectives to a local high school, propelling a young skater into a moral dilemma where he must deal with the consequences of his own actions. As director of My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, To Die For and Elephant, Gus Van Sant has created some of the most memorable stories about youth ever committed to film. New York Press says Paranoid Park boasts "the coolest pop score since Pulp Fiction " and the film was shot by the acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love, The Quiet American). Paranoid Park also features a cast of hot newcomers including Gabe Nevins and "Gossip Girl's" Taylor Momsen.
Amazon.com:
It's hard to believe that a middle-aged filmmaker can fully evoke the chaotic, anxious world of a troubled teenager, but that's what Gus Van Sant has done with Paranoid Park. Alex (newcomer Gabe Nevins), a teenaged boy whose parents are going through a difficult divorce, is drawn to the rough community that's built up around the titular skateboarding park in Portland, Ore. One night, when an older boy is showing him how to hop a freight train, Alex accidentally kills a security guard. The movie captures the before and after by looping back and forth in time, focusing far more closely on Alex's state of mind than the investigation that threatens to close around him. Filmgoers leery of the drawn-out, atmospheric sequences of Van Sant's recent films (like Gerry and Last Days) need not fear; though Paranoid Park favors mood over plot, it successfully balances character, mood, and story, resulting in considerable dramatic tension, similar to Van Sant's meditation on the Columbine shootings, Elephant. This is not a thriller; Paranoid Park pays as much attention to Alex's relationship with his girlfriend Jennifer (Taylor Momsen, Gossip Girl) as to the killing. The result is a vivid, compelling portrait of adolescence, in all its messiness and confusion. This may be Van Sant's best film since his early masterpieces, Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. --Bret Fetzer
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
The two sentence sublot summary intrigued me enough to want to watch this movie. It basically took an hour and a half to tell a five minute story. If that's your thing...lots of slow mow and lingering shots of close ups of people's faces or objects, then you may like this movie. I know some of the shots and "effects" were trying to be artistic but by the end I was yelling at the screen, "get on with it". So, not for everyone but not terrible either. Rent before you buy defintiley.
Rating:  -
Well, this sounded really good, and I bet it made a great book, however the filmmaking and acting was unbearable. You'd get a snippet of story and then like 3-5 minutes of someone walking in slow motion or skateboarding in slow motion...i think we were supposed to be relflecting on the SHOCKING events that were happening in the movie except there weren't any. It was predictable and boring. Maybe if the approach were different and the actors didn't try so hard this would have been better.
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"Paranoid Park"
Disaffected Youth
Amos Lassen
"Paranoid Park" is Gus Van Sant's film adaptation of Blake Nelson's novel about Portland. It was awarded the 60th Anniversary Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It is the story of Alex (Gabe Nevins), a young skater who accidentally kills a security guard. Alex, one night, went to Paranoid Park, a skate park that was illegally built by punks, other skaters and disaffected youth. While he was there, Alex was ... Read More
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With no idea of what this movie was about except with a recommendation from a favored source, I rented this movie.
The artwork for the cover and just the name conjured up imagery of a possibly dark but well-done story, mystery and the inevitable looming of a tragic event.
What ended up happening was watching a movie that tried so hard to capture that of the high school awkwardness, playing the most random soundtrack (of course Eliot Smith was present), long, drawn-out slow ... Read More
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This is one of those films that when the credits roll you look at each other in disbelief, its like the producers ran out of money and said Uh oh, looks like we got another Blockbuster Exclusive. Actually a good film, I just wish they had enough money for the rest of it.
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