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Category Archives: Everyday life

Indiana Jones: Hero or Hypocrite?

April 22, 2008 – 3:30 pm

Is he really safeguarding that icon or is he pilfering it from the gods?

By Christopher Campbell | Also posted in Hollywood | Comments (1)

What we want

October 16, 2006 – 12:13 pm

More than perhaps anything, we long for shared experiences.

By Kristin | Also posted in Autobiographical, Community | Comments (0)

51 Birch Street

August 13, 2006 – 7:14 pm

Films, of course, depict images of life–some right on, some misleading. Maybe more should take the 51 Birch approach.

By Paul Moore | Also posted in Community, Filmmaking | Comments (1)

Can “entertainment guilt” breed better discussions?

July 26, 2006 – 5:49 pm

Do “difficult” films spur better discussion than purely entertaining films, or can we have the best of both worlds?

By Kristin | Also posted in Community | Comments (1)

Entertainment guilt

July 14, 2006 – 9:25 pm

Feeling guilty about which films we do and don’t watch is apprently prevelant enough to deserve its own term: “Netflix guilt.” How sad is that?

By Kristin | Also posted in Autobiographical, Culture/art, Editorial | Comments (2)

Immediate stories

June 12, 2006 – 12:39 am

Why do so many films rely on a wildly eccentric character or some big secret being revealed? Why can’t more people tell the stories right at their fingertips, and tell them really well? Ed Burns did that with Groomsmen.

By Paul Moore | Also posted in Culture/art, Film festivals, Filmmaking | Comments (0)

The Keepers of Public Knowledge

December 15, 2005 – 1:27 pm

My wife works for a non-profit organization that is slowly but steadily planning and rebuilding one neighborhood of our city. I love hearing her talk about her work. To grow my knowledge about what she does a bit more, I picked up a copy of Jane Jacobs book, The Death and Life of Great American [...]

By Paul Moore | Also posted in Community, Editorial | Comments (3)

Ben, Romans, and Scarlett O’Hara

December 7, 2005 – 12:04 pm

The other day I was having a conversation over lunch with my friend, Ben, who is a student of Roman literature. Although some consider it an aimless, catch-all major for a college student to choose, he explained the Roman origins of Liberal Arts are quite different than what we assume. Liberal comes from the [...]

By Paul Moore | Also posted in Culture/art, Guest input | Comments (1)

Why Watch?

November 21, 2005 – 4:01 pm

All of the dialogue around Kristin’s post, Why Write?, has gotten me thinking.
I’m at the point in my life when two whole hours back to back is far more rare than it used to be. My baby girl has created a bottle neck in my film watching queue. I have so many films passing through [...]

By Paul Moore | Also posted in Autobiographical | Comments (1)

Why Write?

November 15, 2005 – 3:16 pm

(The following is a story from Kristin, she’s a friend of Spout. I heard this story and thought she put into words something I’ve been trying to put my finger on for some time now. I asked her to share it on the SpoutBlog.)
One of the most common complaints people have when films “don’t quite [...]

By Paul Moore | Also posted in Autobiographical, Culture/art | Comments (8)