If you’re looking for one place to tune into online for commentary and reactions to this year’s Oscars broadcast your search is now over: Karina and the rest of the SpoutBlog team will be live-tweeting the Oscars this year, sending in their thougts on who won, who didn’t and all the rest of the goings-on.
As the countdown to the ceremony commences, Karina has also been participating in the Oscar Symposium held by Nathaniel R. along with other movie writers, a virtual round-table that apparently includes comparisons of Frank Langella’s performance as Richard Nixon to to a Muppet and some…emotional reactions to that commentary.
You can also join in the discussion leading up to the awards yourself by joining the It’s a Wonder Night for Oscar group on Spout. Make your predictions, weigh in on other people’s thoughts and generally get yourself up to speed on what people are thinking in the lead-up to the ceremony.
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For our pre-Oscar show, we wanted to give our predictions of who will take home the little naked men, but we also wanted to give a running commentary on the awards as they happen. We reached a compromise. We’ve decided to put on our own Oscar ceremony, so we can react to our own predictions, all while providing witty and humorous insights. Watch out for a few upsets! Even we were surprised! (We’ll also be providing commentary on the actual show, via twitter, which you can follow right on SpoutBlog).
Karina joins us to talk about live-twittering the Oscars and the Independent Spirit Awards. She also talks about a compelling new documentary called Moving Midway.
FilmCouch 109:
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Tell us which movie you think should be turned into a graphic novel, for a chance to win the graphic novel version of Waltz With Bashir. Tell us which film has the best production design of all time, and you could win a companion tome to the forthcoming film, Watchmen. E-mail both to filmcouch (at) spout (dot) com.
0:00 - Intro
2:02 - Listener feedback, contests
9:51 - Our fake Oscars
30: 44 - Karina
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My favorite memory of the Oscars last year was Karina Longworth’s Twitters hitting my iPhone every few minutes. The way she can describe Diablo Cody’s dress in one sentence had me turning to my wife saying, “You’ve got to hear this…” By the end of the night we had the iPhone sitting between us, propped on a pillow where we could both see each twitter as it popped up.
Sunday, February 22nd, Karina and a gaggle of other SpoutBlog writers will live-twitter the Oscars again. Check back here at 8:00 EST. If you won’t have a laptop with you to see all the action, you can at least follow Karina on Twitter.
Saturday, February 21st, Karina will also be at The Spirit Awards, twittering from the scene. IFC’s televised coverage begins at 5:00 EST, hosted by Steve Coogan.
Want to see Karina’s Twitter stream? It’s embedded after the jump.
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We’ve already talked about the sickly-sweet little movie that could, Slumdog Millionaire, but it’s looming Oscar domination convinced us to revisit it. This time Paul weighs in with his opinion, and draws a parallel to John Singleton’s Boyz ‘N the Hood.
Watchmen is still a month away, but the buzz is already reaching a crescendo. It’s gotten to the point where the thing to talk about is how much people are talking about Watchmen. We play a clip from an interview with director Zach Snyder, who tries, somewhat unsuccessfully, to convince us he’s the man for the job.
A movie based an a self-help book based on a Sex In The City episode? Karina couldn’t resist. He’s Just Not That Into You isn’t very funny, but it does provide some insight into the inner workings of romantic comedies.
FilmCouch 107 [41:49m]:
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(Subscribe to FilmCouch–Spout’s weekly movie podcast–in the iTunes store or to our RSS feed and an episode will download each Friday)
0:00 - Intro
2:10 - Listener e-mail
6:44 - Paul’s take on Slumdog Millionaire
17:33 - Watching the Watchmen hype machine
30:24 - Karina on He’s Just Not That Into You
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