SpoutBlog Week in Review

Sundance line-up: competition selections; sidebars, midnight movies, and premieres. And a preview: Isaac Julien takes on Derek Jarman.
Butterknife updates: Swanberg salutes Ronnie Bronstein’s Gotham’s win, Karina interviews Swanberg.
Quiet City, Frownland, and the rest of the Independent Spirit Award nominations.
The WGA Strike: Nikki Finke predicted it was over, but several days later, it’s not. Plus, footage of the star-studded NY rally.
This week on FilmCouch: we argue about The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Dear Pillow.
For Your Consideration ads for Jesse James: serious Oscar campaign, or contractual obligation?
David Lynch doesn’t want to have anything to do with Hitler.
Natalie Portman is okay with nudity, she just didn’t want to be an internet porn star.
Movie studios have just as much right to game YouTube as fake lonely teenagers.
Filmmakers moonlighting as ad directors: Harmony Korine, Martin Scorsese, Michel Gondry’s brother.
A preview of Jonny Greenwood’s score for There Will Be Blood.
Sonic Youth offer a classic track to the Juno soundrack.
The Be Kind Rewind online marketing blitz.
Why Carlos Reygadas is doomed to art film semi-fame.
The death of the Hollywood hotspot in the age of wall-to-wall celebrity surveillance.
Video: Joseph Gordon-Levitt likes Russian clowns a little too much.
Is Anton Chigurh a ghost?

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