Whats Jamie Bell doing in the US for his London Film Festival movie?
“I LIKE the gravel road,” says David Gordon Green. He’s talking about the path of least resistance and his aversion to it. Those who have seen Green’s first two films, George Washington and All the Real Girls, will know what he means. See his latest, Undertow, at the London Film Festival and it becomes still more apparent. What you’ll also notice is that Billy Elliot’s Jamie Bell makes a convincing American. Green’s work has drawn comparisons with the early films of Terrence Malick, a compliment made all the sweeter by the endorsement of Malick himself. The call came out of the blue, says Green, a message from the director of Badlands and Days of Heaven. Malick had a script he thought Green would like and offered to be the film’s producer. Green is paranormally relaxed, preternaturally confident — just the kind of person Malick would call up and offer to produce. “There was a script that existed that I did not write. I adapted it to be the film I wanted to make. It was meant to be a mu
