All the Real Americans: The World of David Gordon Green.

The retrospective All the Real Americans: The World of David Gordon Green opens tonight at BAM with Snow Angels and closes with a sneak preview of the stoner comedy Pineapple Express on July 24.

"Has David Gordon Green gone pop?" asks Nick Pinkerton in the Voice before revisiting George Washington, All the Real Girls, Undertow and Snow Angels. Pinkerton then looks ahead to Express, "the best movie (as opposed to an arrangement of scenes) to ever come from Camp Apatow," and, with Green, further on: "Upcoming is a remake of Suspiria ('The way that horror is going, I think we're losing sight of the artistry and the complexity and the kind of strange, surreal, emotional element'), a John Grisham true-crime adaptation, and 'a cartoon TV series.' ('That doesn't include all the weirdo projects— little, bizarre, personal, intimate portraits and things that I try to develop on the side.')"

Updated through 7/23.

Chris Lee, blogging for the Los Angeles Times, on Pineapple Express: "Turns out Green was an inspired if not altogether obvious choice. He more than capably pulls off the kind of improv-heavy, zeitgeisty, male bonding comedy for which Apatow productions have come to be known. At a screening packed with teenagers I attended earlier this summer, Pineapple Express' bong-hit humor and bloody, surrealistically funny action sequences were killing."

John Del Signore talks with DGG for Gothamist.

Earlier: Bruce Bennett in the New York Sun; and James Rocchi's March interview.

Update: Ed Howard on All the Real Girls: "Green finds a lot to love in these characters, approaching them and their stories on their own terms, and comes away with a small gem of a romance and a fine sophomore film."

Update, 7/18: David Lowery at Hammer to Nail on All the Real Girls: "Some of my best memories and all of my worst ones are set to music, and I think what Green was after here was to make a movie that might work the same way. I could tell you about the photography in the film and the actors in it and how they do what they do, but none of that would get at what they're all actually getting at."

Update, 7/23: Online listening tip. DGG on the Leonard Lopate Show.

Posted by dwhudson at July 17, 2008 7:01 AM