Even Cowgirls Get the Blues & My Own Private Idaho

gus van sant

Adapted from Tom Robbins' cult novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a rambunctious epic of cowgirls, FBI agents and ecstatic whooping cranes. My Own Private Idaho charts the pilgrimage of a narcoleptic hustler who is searching for his long-lost mother in a world absent of love.

Genres fictionfilm

199 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1993

This edition

Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1993 by Faber \u0026 Faber
ISBN: 9780571169207
ASIN: 0571169201
Language: English

About the author

gus van sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an American film director, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

His early career was devoted to directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest. Openly gay, he has dealt unflinchingly with homosexual and other marginalized subcultures without being particularly concerned about providing positive role models.

His filmography as writer and director includes an adaptation of Tom Robbins' novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which features a diverse cast (Keanu Reeves, Roseanne Barr, Uma Thurman, and k.d. lang, with cameos by William S. Burroughs and Heather Graham, among others); and My Own Private Idaho, also starring Reeves as well as the late River Phoenix (Van Sant also planned to direct a biographical film about Andy Warhol with Phoenix in the lead role, but canceled the project after Phoenix's death). He is perhaps best known for directing Good Will Hunting.

He wrote the screenplays for most of his early movies, and wrote one novel, Pink. A book of his photography has also been published, called 108 Portraits.