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2 articles from 2008
Nanette Burstein
23 July 2008 9:49 AM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news
Along with filmmaking partner Brett Morgen (Chicago 10), documentary director Nanette Burstein likes to press the limits of what the form can do, most notably on their film The Kid Stays In The Picture, an unconventional adaptation/expansion of the notorious autobiography of producer Robert Evans. Burstein has struck out on her own for her latest effort, American Teen, which arrives in theaters after a galvanizing première at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Both evoking and challenging the high-school stereotypes found in films like The Breakfast Club, American Teen follows four students—popular (and often mean) girl Megan, nerdy outcast Jake, self-effacing jock Colin, and volatile free spirit Hannah—through the dramas of their senior year in the small, conservative town of Warsaw, Indiana. Burstein recently spoke to The A.V. Club about her varying roles as documentarian, counselor, witness to illegal acts, and cinematic innovator. The A.V. Club: Several years.
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Scott Tobias
Opening This Week: Docs on teens, tightropes and tradition
21 July 2008 7:21 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
By Neil Pedley
With blockbusters taking a week off after "The Dark Knight" so thoroughly conquered the box office and its core audience descends upon Comic-Con in San Diego, an outstanding array from the indie scene offers plenty of alternative viewing.
Her longtime collaborator Brett Morgen may be out of the picture, but "The Kid Stays in the Picture" co-director Nanette Burstein infiltrated the cliques, classrooms and hallways of an Indiana high school for her first solo doc, which netted her a directing award at Sundance earlier this year. Burstein follows a cross section of Warsaw High's senior class for 10 months in pursuit of their respective ambitions and priorities, and discovers that bonding at the library during Saturday detention is no way to communicate when text messaging and Im can be just as intimate.
Opens in limited release.
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2 articles from 2008
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