George Washington is David Gordon Green’s impressionistic Southern Gothic debut film, which one reviewer described as within a heart-shot of William Faulkner. Green won the Best First Film prize from the New York Film Critics, the Discovery Award at Toronto and the Best Director Prize at Newport.
David Gordon Green’s feature debut is a seamless blend of subjectivity, pseudo-documentary, evocation of childhood and mythopoeia. In an impoverished small town in North Carolina, various misfit and poor children converse. “Look at this place,” one boy says to another. “It looks like two tornadoes came through here.” The town is dilapidated; one of the “tornadoes” may have been the Great Depression. Shots of railroad tracks suggest dreams of getting out. But during the course of the film, death hovers: a boy dies; as a result, another boy feels that God’s judgment is close; another boy almost dies; a boy’s dog dies. The underlying theme of George Washington is clearly “the loss of all things.”
The videos presented here include the hypnotic opening sequence of David Gordon Green’s auspicious debut film George Washington, another video from the film described as an influential scene in modern cinema and an interview with Charlie Rose, where Green talks about his film George Washington.
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Charlie Rose: David Gordon Green Talks About “George Washington”(Charlie Rose Interview: March 8, 2001)
A detailed review of George Washington can be read in The New York Times here.
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