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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #48 Paranoid Park

Published on January 30, 2008

#48. Paranoid Park

Director/Writer: Gus Van Sant
Producers: David Allen Cress, Charles Gilibert, Nathanaël Karmitz and Neil Kopp (Old Joy)
Distributor: IFC First Take

The Gist: Based on the novel by Blake Nelson, this is set in the world of Portland’s skateboarders, it’s about a teenage kid “who accidentally kills a security guard and has to figure out what to do when police start to investigate the death”.

Fact: Van Sant and Christopher Doyle reunite after having last worked on Psycho.

See It: Continues in the same excellent wave as his past three films: Gerry, Elephant and Last Days (Read review here).

Release Date/Status?: Picked up at Cannes – this is almost one year to the date since it received its premiere. Van Sant fans circle the date of March 7th.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).