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	Ascending Steers - theage.com.au
		Burr Steers' dark comedy-drama Igby Goes Down chronicles the downward spiral of 17-year-old Igby Slocum, unhappy scion of an East Coast old-money family.
		Steers attended several prep schools, was kicked out of one and attended a military academy, which he left.
		Steers wanted to communicate the life lesson he'd finally figured out: "It's about reaching the point in your life when you realise that you're responsible for your own happiness regardless of how you were brought up.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/05/09/1052280425377.html (1492 words)

	Burr Steers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steers also was the screenwriter of the film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, which starred Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey.
		His brother Hugh Auchincloss Steers (1963—1995) was an American figurative painter whose later works often focussed on AIDS as a theme.
		He has another brother, Ivan Steers, and five stepsiblings from his mother's second marriage to Michael Straight, an editor of The New Republic who also was part of the Cambridge Five, a Soviet spy ring of the 1930s whose members included Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Donald Maclean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burr_Steers (264 words)

	Burr Steers - Moviefone
		First-time director Burr Steers, who also scripted, filled this one with some...
		Burr Steers (born 1966) is an American actor, screenwriter and director.
		Burr Steers - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Burr Steers Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/burr-steers/67859/main (90 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Igby Goes Down
		In Burr Steers' "Igby Goes Down" which Steers began as a novel and who then, two years into the project realized he could define his characters better in a visual medium the title character, Jason "Igby" Slocumb Jr.
		Steers peppers the movie with sharp dialogue, mostly from the mouth of Kieran Culkin, younger brother of the 22-year-old Macaulay and older sib of Rory Culkin (who appears in the film as Igby's younger self).
		Steers, and should any in the audience feel that his story speaks personally to him that you were forced to attend schools you hated and to study for a career you had no use for or that you cannot get over your hatred for one or both parents that's all to the good.
	all-reviews.com /videos-4/igby-goes-down.htm (672 words)

	Igby Goes Down Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Burr Steers achieves one major success with his autobiographical coming-of-age rehash tale, and that's synchronicity.
		The plot Steers builds around his characters is purposefully thin — this film relies on its cast of thoughtless, dysfunctional characters to bang home his thesis.
		Steers' commentary on these deleted scenes elucidates some of his directorial choices, and winds up being more informative than the feature-length commentary, during which a moderately entertaining Steers and Culkin fail to discuss any important character issues.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=135282 (1724 words)

	Poison Ivy League - smh.com.au
		Burr Steers's dark comedy-drama, Igby Goes Down, chronicles the downward spiral of 17-year-old Igby Slocum, unhappy scion of a US East Coast old-money family.
		Steers attended several prep schools, was kicked out of Hotchkiss and attended a Midwestern military academy, which he left.
		Steers ended up in Manhattan, eventually got his HSC equivalent and headed to California.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/06/05/1054700332876.html (754 words)

	Independent Reviews Site - Volume 3 Issue 2 (September 2002)
		Writer/director Burr Steers, who has spent some time in Hollywood rewriting other people's scripts, has given his full vision to Igby and the pay off is uplifting.
		Burr Steers: First of all, he wanted to do it and also he understood this was his opportunity to take a step up from being a good actor to being a real actor.
		As for the film's story, Steers doesn't think a film has to have a moral, " But that said the moral of this film is that you are responsible for your own happiness.
	www.theindependentreviewssite.org /v3_i2/v2_i2_index.html (1992 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Igby Goes Down
		Burr Steers, who wrote and directed "Igby Goes Down", graduated from the Quentin Tarantino School of Direction.
		Steers held minor roles in the films "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" and struck up a lasting friendship with Tarantino, though I believe Steers is the older of the two.
		By the end of the film, we see him as someone completely different, a young adult who has lived quite a bit of life since the beginning of the film, who knows what is going on in the world and is willing to accept it.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/igbygoesdown.html (799 words)

	Movies Other\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The influences on Burr Steers’s plucky portrait of adolescent dysfunction range from J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye to Larry Clark’s Kids.
		Much of the film, which Steers wrote as well as directed, hangs on Culkin’s performance, and though the young actor expresess angst with flair, his inconsistent level of maturity — sometimes he seems 12, other times 30 — lacks credibility.
		It’s a minor flaw in an otherwise masterful filmmaking debut by Steers, with outstanding supporting performances by Goldblum and Peet.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/trailers/documents/02439420.htm (171 words)

	Anna David Archives
		Steers’ first career was as a bit-part actor –; Van the doorman in 1988’s Last Days of Disco and the guy with the ‘80s haircut in Pulp Fiction.
		But it wasn’t until his older brother, Hugh, a painter, died of AIDS in 1996, at the age of 32, that Steers began to reconsider what he was doing with his life.
		According to Steers, the quality of the writing, not his famous connections, attracted the film’s roster of A-list talent.
	www.moviecitynews.com /archives/david/notepad_post090802.html (632 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Igby Goes Down (2002) - Printable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Steers proves himself just as able a director, never losing sight of his characters amid the chaotic plot, and never favoring humor over heart.
		I'd hoped that the commentary from director Burr Steers and actor Kieran Culkin might shed a little bit of light on what the movie was supposed to mean and what the characters are all about, but Steers seems reluctant to tell people what they were supposed to have gotten out of it.
		Steers ably explains his reasons for cutting the material, offering more commentary on the characters and the story than he did in his comments for the feature.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=4287 (1129 words)

	Eye Weekly - Catcher in the wry - 09.26.02
		Igby Goes Down is first-time writer/director Burr Steers' painfully funny coming-of-age story that steals a nihilistic page from Catcher in the Rye and finds its comic inspiration in the films of Whit Stillman.
		The privileged 17-year-old's father (Bill Pullman) is in a mental institution, his mother (Susan Sarandon) is dying of cancer, his older brother (Ryan Phillippe) is a smarmy college prick, and his godfather (Jeff Goldblum) is a philandering tycoon.
		Steers is Gore Vidal's nephew, a self-proclaimed failed actor (he had small roles in The Last Days of Disco and Pulp Fiction) and a writer with an amazing ear for educated dialogue that doesn't really sound as if it would come out of the mouths of teenagers.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.26.02/film/onscreen.html (840 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Igby Goes Down" review (2002) Burr Steers, Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon
		Totally enjoyable commentary in which Steers and Culkin are clearly having a great time remembering the making of this movie.
		Sharp, philosophical and zestfully tangy, "Igby Goes Down" is a vaguely familiar but inventively tweaked and poignantly melancholy coming-of-age story that first-time writer-director Burr Steers executes flawlessly and with discerning enthusiasm.
		But as wistful and pensive as "Igby" can get, Steers never loses sight of his incisive, scintillating comedy instincts or Igby's determination to climb out of the well-bred quagmire into which he was born.
	www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/igbygoesdown.html (622 words)

	KINNOPIO - Igby Goes Down
		But Steers often raises the question of whether Igby is capable of coping with grown-up life.
		Steers also hints that Igby might be as instable as his father is, although this is a criticism that is better concealed -- partially because everything about Igby's world, including his mother, seems just a little bit insane.
		It is a remarkable debut feature from Burr Steers, and one that, despite its attachments to the popular Catcher in the Rye, it is less obnoxious about it than most contemporary films.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/2002/igbygoesdown.htm (1003 words)

	FILM CLIPS / Also opening today
		Writer-director Burr Steers, according to publicity, is from a privileged New York background and imparted his own voice to the character of 17-year-old Igby Slocumb (Kieran Culkin), who escapes military school and goes on a New York adventure armed with his mother's credit card.
		Steers' film shares young Igby's contempt for the hypocrisy and coldness of the world he was born into, but seems blind to what's obvious to anyone watching -- Igby is the coldest, most hate-filled and contemptible character in the movie.
		Instead, Steers remains consumed by faith that the kid is charming and witty.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/20/DD162893.DTL (1517 words)

	Slant Magazine - DVD Review: Igby Goes Down
		Though his boorish brother calls him a "glutton for fucking punishment," the relatively enlightened Igby is merely Steers' punching bag (indeed, the boy is all but beaten to a bloody pulp on three different occasions).
		Burr Steers reveals on the Igby Goes Down's commentary track that the film was shot on Super 35, which explains why a film this small looked so good on the big screen.
		Though Burr Steers and Culkin provide lively and engaging commentary over the film itself—ripe with jokes and endless on-set tales—Steers' commentary for the film's mostly odious deleted scenes proves that there really was no limit to just how gratuitously cruel his material could get.
	www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=100 (552 words)

	Reviews at The Hot Button
		With Igby Goes Down, which United Artists has opened in several cities, first time writer-director Burr Steers demonstrates a savage verbal wit in his jaw-droppingly mean Salingeresque fl comedy of Swiftian bad manners among uppercrust Georgetown and Manhattan.
		Steers understands wicked dysfunction, as well as emblematic behavior, such as having Goldblum goofy-grinning, literally caught with his pants around his ankles, and Peet watched by a boy and a boy-man as, bare-chested, she shaves her underarms.
		She calls him "Pavlov's pothead." Culkin seethes with conflict and confusion and, best of all, Steers does not bother to illuminate hilariously arcane references, and he’s utterly unsentimental about any number of ticklish issues, including assisted suicide.
	www.thehotbutton.com /Reviews/VOH/igby_goes_down.html (225 words)

	The Burr Steers Picture Pages
		Named for his forerunner, Aaron Burr, Burr Steers was born in 1966.
		His mother, Nina Auchincloss Steers, was the stepsister of actress Jacqueline Kennedy, and he is the nephew of the New York native actor Gore Vidal.
		Trained by Sandy Meisner, Burr Steers kicked off his professional acting career by playing supporting role Bub in director Scott Spiegel’s crime/horror film Intruder when he was 23 years old.
	www.superiorpics.com /burr_steers (604 words)

	Igby Goes Down (2002) : Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From the acting to the directing to Burr Steers clever take on "Catcher in the Rye" -- this one is a definite winner.
		I can't believe this was Burr Steers' first time writing and his first time directing, he did so well.
		I can't believe this was Burr Steers' first time writing and his first time diresting, he did so well.
	www.countingdown.com /movies/444334/board?viewpost=1037613 (225 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Igby Goes Down [2003]: DVD: Kieran Culkin,Claire Danes,Jeff Goldblum,Jared Harris,Amanda Peet,Ryan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is an absolutely fantastic film and the writer and director, Burr Steers, deserves a hell of a lot of credit for producing something so brilliant.
		In fact Burr Steers based IGD aroung CITR, so if you liked that book, then there is no question that you'll enjoy this film.
		Steers chooses to start with the end of the story and then jump back, a device that seems largely unnecessary, but the violent shock of that scene does unsettle and grab the attention of the audience.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Igby-Goes-Down-Kieran-Culkin/dp/B0000AISL2 (2521 words)

	evidEnce room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A native of Washington D.C., Burr Steersâs primary training was with Sandy Meisner.
		Burr is a founding member of the Evidence Room Theater and has appeared in numerous productions.
		In films Burr has worked as an actor for Quentin Tarantino (PULP FICTION, RESEVOIR DOGS), Martin Scorsese (NAKED IN NEW YORK) and most recently Whit Stillman (THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO).
	www.evidenceroom.com /steers.html (99 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| Film-makers on film: Burr Steers
		You are unlikely to know his name, but it's time you did, because Burr Steers is pretty much as cool as it gets.
		Just as Igby Goes Down could be seen as a descendant of Nichols's movie, Steers sees The Graduate itself as having a direct, distinguished ancestor, a still earlier study in disaffected youth.
		Just two when The Graduate was made, Steers first saw a complete version when he was 14 years old, at the Empire Theatre in New York.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/06/07/bffmof07.xml (889 words)

	REELINSIDER.COM - IGBY GOES DOWN
		Igby Goes Down, the debut from Gore Vidal's nephew Burr Steers, details the coming-of-age of the eponymous Igby (Kieran Culkin).
		Not exactly original when given a long history of urban crazies in the movies, Steers' movie is more successful in its performances than in its milieu.
		Hopefully, Steers will continue along his chosen path as filmmaker just as his cast members will undoubtedly continue enacting unusual people for our provocation and benefit.
	www.reelinsider.com /igby.html (449 words)

	Amazon.com: Igby Goes Down: DVD: Kieran Culkin,Claire Danes,Jeff Goldblum,Jared Harris,Amanda Peet,Ryan Phillippe,Bill ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Burr Steers, in his début as a writer-director, seems to remember only Holden Caulfield's alienation, and none of the self-scrutiny-the sense that rebellion is a pose like any other-which makes that novel more than just a kiss-off.
		Why screenwriter Burr Steers got slammed so hard in an industry that swims in derivation is strange to me.
		Also, director Steers is always finding interesting things for them to do on screen--they constantly move about in the frame, they fidget, they smoke, they gulp wine without really tasting it.
	www.amazon.com /Igby-Goes-Down-Burr-Steers/dp/B00007JXWX (2500 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Film Listings
		Burr Steers' uneasy first feature intentionally recalls both of these studies in wandering discontent, although Igby (Culkin), on the lam from his umpteenth boarding school, has a slightly stronger case for rebellion than his forbears.
		Steers' script is a mastery of one-liners (while having the grace to not feel like it) and a cutting meditation on upper-class isolation.
		His tight orbit of sensationally dysfunctional characters collide in the occasional sex or shared Scotch, but rarely stay in concert; one gets the sense that any prolonged attachment would be the undoing of this masochistic lot.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:142338 (767 words)

	Igby Goes Down
		I claim this, although I don't know much about the writer/director Burr Steers, because one cannot separate art from the artist.
		I felt that there was more to all of this that Burr Steers is not letting us get to.
		I sense that at one point in his life, Steers was Igby, and his family (or a family he knew) may not have been too different from the one in the film.
	bigspeegs124.tripod.com /bigspeegs/igbygoesdown.html (705 words)

	Burr Steers on Igby Goes Down - Channel 4 Film feature
		Burr Steers on Igby Goes Down - Channel 4 Film feature
		After Donnie Darko and The Good Girl, Igby Goes Down is the latest film to chart the disillusioned youth of America.
		"I think it's weird how certain things happen at a certain time," muses first time writer-director Burr Steers.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/feature.jsp?id=119530 (160 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Burr Steers - 2002 - Igby Goes Down Movies Review
		It's hard to mix dark comedy and family drama well, but first time writer/director Burr Steers proves himself worthy with Igby Goes Down, a sharply funny yet deeply disturbing film about a family that has always been on the verge of catastrophe.
		Burr Steers has the kind of talent that marks him as a darker version of Wes Anderson, since his film lacks the sunny qualities of the Rushmore director's works.
		Igby Goes Down is real rarity for an American film—it's about something, and while the ending could be perceived as happy, it's really not.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10004103 (1006 words)

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