Interview. David Gordon Green.

James Rocchi finds David Gordon Green to be "articulate and enthusiastic about both his intimate, chilly-climate drama" - that would be Snow Angels, featuring the young director's largest cast yet (Michael Angarano, Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale, the list goes on) - "and his upcoming stoner-comedy action flick," Pineapple Express, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco and produced by Judd Apatow.

"David Gordon Green's fourth feature, the casually played yet deeply serious Snow Angels, continues along his own lovely path, reaching into particulars of working-class life with wit and empathy," writes Ray Pride. "Life is a river, and sometimes it freezes over: Green, working with generous breadth in adapting Stewart O’Nan’s 2003 novel, warms the heart."

Updated through 4/3.

"Like Green's previous movies, from the brilliant George Washington to Undertow, Snow Angels is about faith," writes Cindy Fuchs in the Philadelphia City Paper. "More precisely, it's about doubt and desire, the underpinnings of faith."

"Snow Angels is jam-packed with American malaise," writes Joanne Laurier at the WSWS. "Green cares about his characters and their difficulties, and takes care in depicting them. There is a conscientiousness to his efforts, and one feels that he is on to something about American life, particularly the quite diminished prospects in its small towns and cities in the first decade of the 21st century."

The Oregonian's Shawn Levy talks with DGG, too; Kathy Fennessy's talking with him at the Siffblog.

Earlier: March 7 reviews; and reviews from Sundance 07.

Update, 3/31: Sean Burns talks with DGG for the Philadelphia Weekly.

Updates, 4/3: For the Austin Chronicle, Kimberley Jones salvages what she can from her botched recorder.

Online listening tip. Rob Davis talks with DGG.

Posted by dwhudson at March 30, 2008 1:58 PM