Paul Moore is a co-founder of spout.com and in charge editorial content. As well as being a regular contributor to SpoutBlog, he hosts the weekly podcast, FilmCouch, nominated for a Webby Award in 2007, which continually seeks out groundbreaking films and interviews uncompromising filmmakers like Michel Gondry, Julian Schnabel, Werner Herzog and Paul Schrader. Paul orchestrated various partnerships with filmmakers like Joe Swanberg and Arin Crumley when Four Eyed Monsters was the first feature film launched on YouTube--a partnership cited across the film industry as one of the first tangible ways filmmakers have monetized the free showing of their work online. He lives in Grand Rapids, MI with his wife and two kids and reluctantly admits to seeing far more episodes of Dora The Explorer than Mad Men.
I must deliver the regrettable news that, after October 31, 2009, Karina Longworth will no longer serve as SpoutBlog’s editor.
Spout.com, the online community, continues as it has. As of now, we have no plans to publish new content on SpoutBlog after October 31. We hope the SpoutBlog book will console those of you who are [...]
One of Karina Longworth’s favorite undistributed films of 2008 is available online for free.
Which movies would be as good, or better, as graphic novels? Also, The Oscars and The Mickey Rooney Factor.
Karina Longworth’s second annual Twittering of The Oscars this Sunday at 8:00 and The Spirit Awards this Saturday at 5:00.
The feeling is familiar, the feeling of having seen this movie done by other people and they did it much better.
PUSH: BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SAPPHIRE was Sundance 2009’s top award winner. Only time will tell if it’s as glorious an accomplishment as a hyper-optimistic festival mob hopes it is.
On the surface, Art & Copy is a tribute to legendary creative minds in advertising, and the process through which they made their most iconic ads. From taglines that became pop touchstones like “Just Do It” and “Got Milk?” to how Mac, Budweiser and Volkswagon went beyond their product and became “lifestyle brands,” the charismatic [...]
Burma is under a repressive military regime. To a Western mind, it’s hard to imagine plain clothes agents of the government arresting anybody holding a camera (who’s not another agent), or soldiers shooting protesters in the streets then airing TV messages like “RFA, AFP, BBC [free press] saboteurs, watch your step!” Almost all images from [...]
Professional Boxing’s greatest match or most repulsive rivalry? THRILLER IN MANILA chooses to be both at the same time.
Catching up on what Eric Fensler’s been doing since the GI Joe PSAs becomes the most interesting interview ever for FilmCouch. Karina Longworth explains why she spent Thanksgiving with AUSTRALIA and INDECENT PROPOSAL.
YouTube inadvertently rescues lost cinema.
An unexpected must see from Austria, Götz Spielmann’s REVANCHE reinvents revenge.
The hype is ripe for Kristen Scott Thomas in Phillipe Claudel’s I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG
Salman Rushdie steps in to make sure people see Nandita Das’ FIRAAQ. Go, Salman, go!
Let the Best Actor buzz begin with Jeff Goldblum in ADAM RESURRECTED and Paul talks to director Paul Schrader.
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October 31, Karina’s Last Day
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We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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