SpoutBlog Week in Review, 10/19/07

By Karina Longworth posted 10 months ago

Harvey Weinstein said he’d shoot himself if Cate Blanchett doesn’t get an Oscar nomination for I’m Not There. Has he already forgotten?
Eli Roth wants to do sketch comedy. Seriously.
Lance Weiler has a new web series.
Asia Argento: The next Marlene Dietrich?
What works for the queer blogosphere doesn’t necessarily sell a blockbuster in Korea.
Netflix has hired Dana Carvey to star in a crappy web series.
If you have a recent picture of yourself in a costume and can make the appropriate value judgements about John Carpenter flicks, you could attend Harry Knowles’ 24-hour film festival.
Film theorist Rudolf Arnheim died, but commenter Marco didn’t have anything to do with it.
Fox is showing a lack of confidence in Parker Posey’s sitcom debut.
YouTube is getting ready to launch a tool that will spoil the party for mashup artists.
Kevin on Ultimate Blogger, possibly the web’s first reality show.
John Cusack talks about playing an Iraq war supporter in Grace is Gone.
If Will Ferrell barely has time to make content for FunnyOrDie, how is Judd Apatow gonna manage it?
You can download a free issue of Film Quarterly that includes out takes from the script of Mark Rappaport’s From The Journals of Jean Seberg. I read them on the subway and they were awesome.
Disney denies they’ve fired Vanessa “nudie pic” Hudgens from their flagship tween franchise. Here’s three reasons why they shouldn’t change their minds.
Find out what *really* happened to the couples of Say Anything, Pretty Woman and The Princess Bride after the end credits.
Thanks to a recent rule change, Silent Light is eligible for an Oscar.
Robert Rodriguez’s Barbarella remake is in trouble, for a myriad of (mysterious, half-probable) reasons.
Newsflash: Michael Moore blogs about himself. A lot.
Should George Lucas try to hit the YouTube generation by making content for YouTube?
Kimberley Pierce’s Stop-Loss has been infuriating critics for months, and the trailer only premiered yesterday.
A tour through Warner Brothers’ recent marketing blunders.
Think Tyler Perry’s a hack and Judd Apatow’s a genius? Armond White says that’s because you’re white.
On FilmCouch: Paul and Kevin mull over Mike Mills’ depression in Japan doc Does Your Soul Have A Cold? and finally got around to seeing The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — no thanks to Warner Brothers. And Karina tries to explain why a four hour Tom Petty documentary directed by Peter Bogdanovich makes perfect sense.
After you listen to the podcast, you can read more about Peter Bogdanovich.
Wristcutters: A Love Story’s road to theaters was much more of a slow bleed than the film itself.
Is there really going to be a Brokeback Mountain sequel, or is OK! Magazine now just making stuff up for their own amusement?
CIFF red carpet coverage: John Cusack, Mos Def & Jeffrey Wright, Anthony Hopkins, Malcolm McDowell, Laura Linney