FilmCouch #62
posted 8 months ago10,000 BC vs. ONE MILLION YEARS BC: Can 990,000 years of evolution make a better movie? And speaking of better movies, Karina explains why we don’t see good musicals anymore.
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.
10,000 BC vs. ONE MILLION YEARS BC: Can 990,000 years of evolution make a better movie? And speaking of better movies, Karina explains why we don’t see good musicals anymore.
Karina gets her interview on with Frank Ross and the cast of PRESENT COMPANY at SXSW
Interviewing Tommy Davis, director of ONE MINUTE TO NINE, 87 minutes of documentary that reduced all of Paul’s adjectives to “powerful”
AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR, a doc about a fascinating man who participated in 95 executions of both guilty and innocent convicts
The SXSW 2008 Film Festival wrap up from FilmCouch
EXPLICIT ILLS is one of the more star studded and challenging movies at SXSW (two things that usually don’t go together). Paul interviews director Mark Webber.
Review of BEAUTIFUL LOSERS from SXSW 2008, the doc that got Paul “pumped”
At SXSW 2008, Paul interviews the filmmakers of NATURAL CAUSES about getting it out as fast as possible
Paul interviews Steve Conrad about THE PROMOTION, a new comedy with John C. Reilly and Sean William Scott
Paul interviews Aaron Rose after the world premier of SXSW 2008 doc darling, BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
Paul interviews Steve James and Peter Gilbert at SXSW 2008. AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR is their newest doc about a holy man who helped execute 95 death row inmates.
Paul gets pushed around on the red carpet for the SXSW 2008 premier of 21
Jack Nicholson is the walking cinematic representation of impotence. : ––Karina Longworth
The Second Skin boys have made a video diary of their first day in Texas leading up to their premiere on Friday at SXSW. Via Matt Dentler.
“I’m probably going to get in trouble for saying this, but I’ve always felt like I can tell the difference when I’m watching a film directed by a woman. I just feel like the metaphors are more eloquent, by which I mean, they don’t shout as much. Even for myself, when I try to make [...]