Topic: Nanette Burstein

Going the Distance Cast Talks About the Economy, Ensembles, and Why Applegate Had to Stare at Long's Naked Ass

Washington City Paper - 527 days ago
- for a good chunk of this romantic comedy, things don't work out for Erin (Drew Barrymore) and Garrett (Justin Long), a couple who meets cute in New York six weeks before Erin is planning to move back to San Francisco. It ...

High School Daze in American Teen

ThisIsLondon.co.uk - 1075 days ago
Nanette Burstein's film, a success at the Sundance Festival, starts off as a documentary examining the mores of teenagers in Warsaw High, Indiana, a typical American high school - and then imperceptibly becomes something else. What Burstein finds are five teens who ...

A Lot to Learn from American Teen

Crosswalk - 1149 days ago
PG-13 (for some strong language, sexual material, drinking and smoking-all involving teens. Megan consciously wields her popularity with confidence yet instantly resorts to victim status (and vulgar manipulation) when things don't go her way. Jake is fully aware of what makes ...

'American Teen' Is Not a Pretty Picture

Crosswalk - 1214 days ago
Nanette Burstein's American Teen documentary has hit the big screen with a limited release in major American cities. The film purports to be a realistic view of American adolescence, as Burstein went to Warsaw, Indiana in order to follow five teenagers ...

A Lot to Learn from "American Teen"

Crosswalk - 1298 days ago
PG-13 (for some strong language, sexual material, drinking and smoking-all involving teens. Megan consciously wields her popularity with confidence yet instantly resorts to victim status (and vulgar manipulation) when things don't go her way. Jake is fully aware of what makes ...

Capsule reviews of `Step Brothers' and other films

AP News - 1298 days ago
At the Movies: _ Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic___"Brideshead Revisited" An unimpeachable yet ultimately unmoving adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel about social ambition, religious conflict and doomed love. But Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are essentially playing the ...

Filmmakers on the cutting edge

CNET - 1486 days ago
-A documentary on steroid culture is shot with a state-of-the-art camera that saves footage straight onto memory cards, freeing the filmmaker from the burden of tape-shlepping. In the end, "it's all about the story," said Mark Randall, Adobe System's chief ...