The Good, The Bad & the Geordie Film Club
Movies, Pizza, beers & banter
A monthly-ish jaunt into the worlds of film, food & beers. Buckle your seatbelts for some high octane movie chat, This is The Good, The Bad and The Geordie Film Club.
Elephant
- Director: Gus Van Sant
- Writer: Gus Van Sant
- Stars: Elias McConnell, Alex Frost, Eric Deulen
Elephant
Gus Van Sant’s 2003 movie of high school shootings offer’s no easy answers and the pared back style of the long Steadicam shots gives an almost dreamlike quality to the otherwise mundane day in the life of a regular high school about to be tragically altered.
Alan Clarke’s 1989 BBC television film dealing with the troubles in the North of Ireland was an inspiration for Van Sant’s 2003 film: