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Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Thrillers, Fandom, Family Films, Cinematical Indie With all due respect to my esteemed colleague Elisabeth Rappe, geeks are not the only ones who learned important lessons from watching movies this summer. Herewith is my personal, arthouse summer school summary. Werner Herzog cast a disapproving eye on the ugliness he discovered at Antarctica's McMurdo Station ("they even have a yoga studio and an ATM!") and was skeptical about the sanity of some of the real-life characters he met, which is partly why Encounters at the End of the World was so entrancing. What I learned: Evidence for gay penguins is skimpy, but they have been known to have threesomes. The Wackness (pictured) didn't became the breakout hit that some had hoped for, but it did showcase the talents of rising star Olivia Thirlby and director Jonathan Levine. What I learned: Never kiss Ben Kingsley in a telephone booth. Nanette Burstein's filmmaking techniques were much more off-putting than her ultimately winning subjects in American Teen, another would-be smash that didn't live up to box office expectations. What I learned: Never break up with your girlfriend via text message, especially when a documentary filmmaker is interviewing her. Unexpectedly, Tell No One became the breakout limited-release mystery thrill ride of the summer, and Man on Wire proved that impassioned high wire walkers can make dreams come true and enthrall audiences to boot. What I learned: It's good to be French. Now it's your turn, all you indie-loving, doc-devoted, world cinema aficionados: what did you learn from the movies this summer? Permalink | Email this | Comments

August 1: Glory days... while Adam and Matty may share common Midwestern roots, turns out they enjoyed quite disparate high school experiences. One of your hosts was (and still is) a dashingly handsome former class President, coasting through life; for the other, high school left him a neurotic and brooding mound of bitterness. Perhaps not surprisingly then, your in-house Zac and Screech offer (violently) differing takes on Nanette Burstein's new documentary focusing on five small-town Indiana seniors, "American Teen." Plus, the Filmspotting Classic Heist marathon rolls on in style with Michael Caine, Noel Coward and Benny Hill singing "Rule Britannia" behind the wheels of their 1968 Mini-Coopers in "The Italian Job." Finally, in honor of Heath Ledger's latest turn as the Joker in "The Dark Knight," the lads list their Top 5 Swan Songs. Also on the show: Listener Feedback, Massacre Theatre and music by Sea Ray. ** Filmspotting is presented by SpoutBlog and the FilmCouch podcast. Find out why The New York Times says, "SpoutBlog's got it all," at blog.spout.com. ** CONTEST Cast the villain in Batman 3 now for a shot at great prizes! Filmspotting #221 :24-14:12 - Review: "American Teen" Music: Sea Ray, "Nicholas Ray" 14:59-20:05 - Voicemail, Notes, Polls 20:06-31:34 - Feedback (Dark Knight) Music: Sea Ray, "Revelry" 32:05-35:29 - New Contest 35:30-39:44 - Massacre Theatre (Winner: Se Young Kang) 39:45-48:23 - Heist #4: "The Italian Job" Music: Sea Ray, "Swear To Your Face" 48:45-53:36 - New DVDs, Donations, Winners 53:37-1:06:00 - Top 5: Swan Songs 1:06:01-1:08:29 - Close/Next Show/Outtakes NOTES/CORRECTIONS - The non-dashingly handsome host would like to note that his high school experience was actually pretty pleasant; he came out of the womb neurotic and brooding. - For all the families listening, note that two of the Top 5 movie clips contain a bit of swearing -- around the 55 and 60 minute marks. - I figured out what Matty was referring to when discussing the 'superimposed' text messages in "American Teen." Yes, there is at least one instance where Burstein basically captions for us what is appearing on somebody's cell phone. Matty's implication seemed to be that Burstein was making the content of the message up or being dishonest in some way, and I didn't see it that way. - Don't ask me what Harvey Dent's "transmission" is. - Apologies to Isaac McKeithen from Auburn, AL who gave us the scene from "The Prestige" we announced the winner of on episode #220. We had two chances to give him his due credit and failed. Sorry! - More apologies... to listener and former message board mod Alex Knesnik. He bought me "Giant" as a birthday present last year so I didn't need to Tivo it and I definitely should have watched it by now! - My research on Richard Farnsworth was terrible. He DID get nominated for "The Straight and for "Comes a Horseman" but did NOT win Best Supporting Actor for the latter. - Also expanding to more screens this weekend... the movie we reviewed in the first segment, "American Teen"!

Filed under: Documentary, Festival Reports, DIY/Filmmaking, Interviews, Cinematical Indie, Paramount Vantage By: James Rocchi (With American Teen opening nationwide this week, we at Cinematical are re-running our Sundance 2008 interview with director Nanette Burstein.) One of the biggest word-of-mouth buzz hits of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Nanette Burstein's American Teen follows a handful of high school students in Indiana for 10 months; the resulting documentary somehow has the look and feel of a Hollywood-manufactured piece of teen fiction, with stylish and surreal animated sequences -- and still offers a touching, bold, you-are-there window into the state of adolescence in America. Paramount Vantage purchased the documentary's rights only a few days ago, but when the director met Cinematical, it looked as if her schedule hadn't gotten any less harried. Asked if she has a future project in mind, Burstein laughs ruefully: "The next thing I'd like to do is sleep for a really long time." Burstein spoke with Cinematical about how she came to be in Indiana, the media-savvy minds of today's kids, the sequences she had to lose from her original "8 hour cut," and much more. This interview, like all of Cinematical's podcast offerings, is now available through iTunes; if you'd like, you can subscribe at this link. Also, you can listen directly here at Cinematical by clicking below: Permalink | Email this | Comments

Author: condensedmov Added: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:39:30 -0800 Duration: 168A look at the last year of high school, as seen through the eyes of five real teenagers. From Director Nanette Burstein and Paramount Vantage, this film opens July 25th.