Gerry Elephant

Two from Van Sant featuring lost hikers and a school shooting, respectively. About the first, John Waters says, "Don't sleep with anyone who doesn't love this film."

Second film start time: 9 pm. Focusing on two hikers (Matt Damon and Casey Affleck) lost in the desert, Gerry marked a radically different direction in Van Sant's filmmaking. The simple premise belies the film's exquisite lyricism and invention.
(2002; 103 mins.)

Winner of the Palme d'Or and Best Director prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, Elephant is Van Sant's dramatization of a Columbine-like school shooting, made all the more poignant by his portrayal of the students' everyday lives from multiple points of view. (2003; 81 mins.)