Mumble Rumbles: SpoutBlog Week in Review

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Way back on Monday, we introduced our entry in the Top 25 Foreign Films List sweepstakes.
We remembered Groucho Marx by swooning over Zeppo.
We wondered why the Balls of Fury guy is playing Alfred Hitchcock instead of Orson Welles.
We totally forgot about that whole spontaneous combustion sub-theme to Max Headroom.
Chuck Klosterman was all, “I discovered Bujalski!” and we were all, “Sigh.”
In the space of three weeks, Werner Herzog went from Great American Hero to Treasonous Traitor.
There’s a conspicuous lack of Gere in this I’m Not There trailer.
Bill Murray saves the world: the fundamental rescue fantasy of our generation?
By Wednesday, the MumbleBacklash was already brewing…
…but Hannah Takes the Stairs still sold tons of tickets on its first day…
…And there are three Mumblecore movies that you haven’t even heard of. Go see them next week.
I confessed my secret dream to write about Eyes Wide Shut for a living.
On this week’s episode of FilmCouch, we talked about Trapped in the Closet (which ended), Superbad, and a punk rock high school flick that you can watch on YouTube.
These are the 15 movies that I want to see at the Toronto Film Festival.
If you see one documentary about a guy who thinks he’s dating Joan of Arc this weekend, it should be Kamp Katrina.
Quiet City director Aaron Katz talks about Van Morrison, fantasy baseball, airplane traffic jams, and the pros and cons of being labelled Mumblecore.