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George Washington - Criterion Collection (2000)

Starring: Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden Director: Clu Gulager, David Gordon Green Rating: Unrated Format: DVD
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)

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Special Features

  • Deleted scene with commentary
  • David Gordon Green's short films: Pleasant Grove (with commentary) and Physical Pinball
  • Charlie Rose interview with David Gordon Green
  • Exclusive new interviews with the cast
  • Clu Gulager's 1969 short film A Day with the Boys, an influence on George Washington

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George Washington is surely one of the most visually arresting debuts in recent American cinema. Loitering among the dilapidated machinery and detritus littering a small town in North Carolina, 24-year-old director David Gordon Green and cinematographer Tim Orr transform the listless confines of growing up poor into breathtaking beauty. Green has referenced Terence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978) as an overriding influence, and the languorous grace of his portrait of childhood lives up to the comparison.

Tracing the interwoven stories of a group of kids, black and white, over a few pivotal days and one accidental death, Green elicits nuanced performances from a mostly nonprofessional cast and captures an understated poetry through clearly improvised dialogue. Where Harmony Korine's depiction of childhood outcasts in Gummo goes astray in its insistence upon depravity and shrill eccentricity, George Washington maintains a perfect balance between oddity, loosely configured realism, and the sublime. --Fionn Meade



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Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in the rural south are forced to confront a tangle of difficult choices in a decaying world. An ambitiously constructed, sensuously photographed meditation on adolescence, the first feature film by director David Gordon Green features breakout performances from an award-winning ensemble cast.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars amazing debut film, July 2, 2001
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David Gordon Green has created a lush, vibrant film showing not just immense potential, but genuine talent. Set in the deep south during the recession of the 1980's, GW captures the melancholy of childhood in a rarely (if never before) seen light. While obviously influenced by the great talent of Terrence Malick, Green's choice of cinematographer and talent demonstrate a fundamental understanding of film as a visual and sensory medium, and not a dumping ground for rehashed dialogue and filler about bad relationships with witty quips. Green throws aside the usual bad dialogue and poor camera work of most first time film makers, and finds language in imagery and visuals in dialogue. The exploration of heroism and simple responsibility are given appropriate weight, but with no small sense of the absurd (perhaps appropriate when dealing with the perspective of children). This is an excellent film, and should stoke the drive of all wannabe or potential first-time film-makers. The bar need not be set low just because of a constrained budget. Films can be made that are meaningful and well-shot without a $100K budget.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A poignant landscape of a dusty, delapidated South, September 9, 2001
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I saw this film at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2000, and thought it one of the most original and haunting films I have seen in years. It is a very subjective, impressionistic and almost transcendental movie about a group of kids, and how they follow their own particular code of honour in the face of misfortune. Kind of like Harmony Korine but at an easier pace, and with more unity of vision.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hypnotic, February 16, 2003
In one of the opening scenes of George Washington, a boy and a girl break up. There is not much else to this scene, which makes it like most breaks ups. It makes it like many of our experiences is childhood: they just happen. The movie George Washington, however, mixes such everyday happenings in a poor, rural/industrial landscape with a level of complexity that is suprising and revealing. The characters experience love, loss, friendship, joy, forgiveness, boredom, and a longing for something more. The characters like each other. Some are white, and most of them are black, but they are all friends. Every summer, kids all over the country experience the kinds of events that many kids experience, yet there is a tragedy that occurs in this movie that renders this story unique. Tragedy aside, George Washington is simply a beautiful and quiet film about one hot summer in the south and it's children.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good start
George Washington was the first feature film ever made by indy wunderkind director David Gordon Green. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Cosmoetica

5.0 out of 5 stars not for everyone...but an indisputable masterpiece for others
firstly; this movie is unashamedly derivative of terrence malick. structure-wise, down to the narrative techniques, it's a repositioning of 'badlands', but all i can say about... Read more
Published 21 months ago by mark twain

5.0 out of 5 stars A stunning and poetic debut film -- the rebirth of a nation
The children of this film speak of matters and in a manner that suggests a maturity beyond their years. They have to, since they have only peers to serve as moral guides. Read more
Published on October 29, 2007 by Nathan Andersen

3.0 out of 5 stars I should like this film, but....
On paper, I should love this film. It has many thing I admire in films. It's beautifully shot in scope, it has a leisurely pace to it, and it's very understated at times. Read more
Published on March 18, 2007 by Grigory's Girl

4.0 out of 5 stars A dazzling and imaginative debut
I loved this film - I love the episodic story, which unfolds at a languid, lifelike pace - this subtlety captures the feel of life in a Southern city - GEORGE WASHINGTON was set... Read more
Published on September 21, 2006 by David Alston

5.0 out of 5 stars I hope you live forever.
David Gordon Green is a master of his trade. While some will argue that George Washington does not depict the best that Green has to offer, I believe that it is a great opening... Read more
Published on July 4, 2006 by A. Gyurisin

4.0 out of 5 stars The ghetto as a poem. A lingering portrait.
I'd imagine that if Mark Twain, Robert Frost, or Walt Whitman were still alive, they might appreciate George Washington as a film personified through a poem. Read more
Published on January 23, 2006 by Joel Munyon

3.0 out of 5 stars Considerable Talent on Display Here
I often find the 5 star rating system doesn't leave enough room for films that sit somewhere in between. Read more
Published on December 26, 2005 by Wendell

4.0 out of 5 stars Well written, Narration was a bit too dramatic and the acting wasn't the greatest but besides that I liked it.
This is a very different film about a young boy who dreams of becoming a president or just someone with a higher value, such as a super hero, It wasn't as good as I was expecting... Read more
Published on September 25, 2005 by Jackie Holsmen

1.0 out of 5 stars I'd sooner go over Niagra Falls in a barrel
I'd rented the movie UNDERTOW and it "got me" -- I've watched the first half of it more than just a couple of times. A somewhat "slow" but utimately interesting movie. Read more
Published on June 3, 2005 by Jerry Snyder

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