My Own Private Idaho


Co-Presented by Three Dollar Bill Cinema

USA | 1991 | 104 Min | Dir. Gus Van Sant
Saturday, August 25 | 5:25PM | North Bend Theatre

Set in the 1990’s runaway-dominated streets of the Pacific Northwest and loosely based on Shakespeare’s Henry IV, this seminel film by Gus Van Sant (GOOD WILL HUNTING, MILK) tells the tale of a narcoleptic street kid named Mike (River Phoenix) who befriends a fellow hustler (Keanu Reeves) on his journey to find his estranged mother.

 

Exhibiting a dreamlike world with surreal filmmaking themes, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO is deemed as a groundbreaking film in the lgbt cinema canon. Capturing the harsh realities that queer youth experienced during the 1990s runaway epidemic in our region while pioneering the “New Queer Cinema Movement” that continues on today.


This program is presented in collaboration with Seattle-based Three Dollar Bill Cinema, whose mission is to strengthen, connect, and reflect diverse communities through queer film and media.

—Jess Byers

Director: Gus Van Sant

Producer: Laurie Parker

Screenwriter: William Shakespeare, Gus Van Sant

Cinematographer: John J. Campbell, Eric Alan Edwards

Editor: Curtiss Clayton

Composer: Bill Stafford

Executive Producer: Allan Mindel

Cast: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey, Chiara Caselli

My Own Private Idaho


Co-Presented by Three Dollar Bill Cinema

USA | 1991 | 104 Min | Dir. Gus Van Sant
Saturday, August 25 | 5:25PM | North Bend Theatre

Set in the 1990’s runaway-dominated streets of the Pacific Northwest and loosely based on Shakespeare’s Henry IV, this seminel film by Gus Van Sant (GOOD WILL HUNTING, MILK) tells the tale of a narcoleptic street kid named Mike (River Phoenix) who befriends a fellow hustler (Keanu Reeves) on his journey to find his estranged mother.

 

Exhibiting a dreamlike world with surreal filmmaking themes, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO is deemed as a groundbreaking film in the lgbt cinema canon. Capturing the harsh realities that queer youth experienced during the 1990s runaway epidemic in our region while pioneering the “New Queer Cinema Movement” that continues on today.


This program is presented in collaboration with Seattle-based Three Dollar Bill Cinema, whose mission is to strengthen, connect, and reflect diverse communities through queer film and media.

—Jess Byers

Director: Gus Van Sant

Producer: Laurie Parker

Screenwriter: William Shakespeare, Gus Van Sant

Cinematographer: John J. Campbell, Eric Alan Edwards

Editor: Curtiss Clayton

Composer: Bill Stafford

Executive Producer: Allan Mindel

Cast: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey, Chiara Caselli