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We published an extensive interview by Carl Hanni with Portland’s own Walt Curtis back in Plazm issue #3. Carl talks with Walt about his works, growing up gay in Oregon, and Portland poets. We have posted the full article along with a few of Walt’s drawings in the magazine section of our web site.
In 1985 Gus Van Sant adapted one of Walt’s stories—Mala Noche—to his first film. Gus discusses this process in the interview. Mala Noche was recently given a fine reissue on DVD with extras by Criterion Collection. As Gus’s body of work has grown, so has the importance of this film and the story. Given Gus’s recent Oscar nominations for Milk, we thought this might be a nice time to bring this article back to the fore.