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The making-of doc on Undertow is fantastic.

post #1 of 4
4/26/05 at 8:12pm
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The movie itself is a marvel, my pick for best of last year.

My friends are tired of me saying it but if I were given a gun and David Gordon Green and any other filmmaker were set in front of me and I was ordered to shoot one of them... there is not another director on Earth I would choose over Green.

Not necessarily for what he has done (which I think is considerable) but for what I believe he will do... reinvent and, as a result, preserve a decidedly American Cinema.

What I mean is that regardless of his influences... he could only watch European films, only reference Asian films for all I know and care... the work he is doing is as American as Faulkner's writing, as jazz, etc. I think that is really exciting.

That being said, the making of doc (produced by Josh Lucas) is really great. For fans of good BTS stuff who might be on the fence about buying/renting Undertow, it is worth it for that alone. Give the movie a shot and help out the numbers on this thing... I don't want to wait three years for another David Gordon Green movie.

This message has been brought to you by a selfish attempt to see more good movies from people I like.
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post #2 of 4
4/26/05 at 9:35pm
I'm a fan of David Gordon Green, too.

I still need to go out and pick this flick up.
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post #3 of 4
4/27/05 at 2:30am
I'm even more excited about renting this now. I watched Ebert's show over the week-
end, and he mentioned it was coming out on DVD. He loves the movie, put it on his
Ten Best list, and he said he tells people all the time that Green is the most exciting
young filmmaker out there now. I think he even compared him to the young Scorsese.

I really dig Josh Lucas too. I thought he was fucking great in Wonderland.
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post #4 of 4
5/2/05 at 11:55pm
Undertow was pretty fucking good. Not stupendously great, but I dig the movies' style. Definitely a step forward in advancing Gordon Green's directing prowess.

The making-of documentary, I felt was a little too short. There were many things unanswered, which is, I guess okay. It's just you can't have the younger brother mention that he's in acting "not for the money" and have Josh Lucas smile devilishly and then go onto something else. What did he hold back? What didn't he say? Many things could have been said, but that smile is just so damn vague.

It reminded me of making movies with my student friends, and it appears to me that Green's sets are just an extension of that, but with ultimately way more money. Good for him. There's a fun atmosphere when the fear strikes that everyone has no clue what they're doing, but Green and master cinematographer Tim Orr (this guy is seriously fucking talented) really know when to punch things up.

I'm eagerly awaiting Secret Life of Bees. I hope it comes by the end of 2005. Probably not, but I second the notion of Green working more and more. His is such a unique voice.
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