Among Portland’s most prominent local celebrities is Gus Van Sant, a leading New Queer Cinema voice whose early works were filmed across Oregon, often in the Rose City itself. My Own Private Idaho ...
It’s been 20 years and we still can’t quit Ang Lee’s sweeping cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain, this heart-wrenching tale of forbidden love in the Montana outback. But tucked away in the history of ...
It’s not dramatic, it’s Shakespearean! A ’90s cult classic, “My Own Private Idaho”, directed and written by Gus Van Sant, depicts the lives of street hustlers in a grand vision of brash surreality.
Joe Apollonio is not your average Joe. The queer, NYC-based actor and comedian has been steadily racking up credits over the past decade, appearing in TV favorites like Hacks, Betty, and Young Sheldon ...