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Pee Wee Returns. Again.

Any excuse to watch YouTube clips of ‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse’ is a good one.

Are professionals always funnier?

It’s not about professional vs. homemade comedy, because they’re two different things.

How water, oil, and being Canadian add up

A producer and director, fresh off a trip to SXSW with their film, talk to Spout about some of the ins and outs of their filmmaking experience.

Good people-watching

A common complaint from film audiences is, “The characters just weren’t believable.” Director Todd Field knows how to avoid that problem.

A Sermon on Community

The comment Summer left in the last Manifesto statement got me all worked up to start preachin’ on community. Before I start humming soulful-like, I need to check myself. Now first, Summer you said “the ‘old-fashion’ communities and neighborhoods I tend to think of are
very narrow, excluding everyone and everything that doesn’t fit the
white-picket fenced-in [...]

Why Hollywood Movies Prefer to Premiere in New York

Link: Why Hollywood Movies Prefer to Premiere in New York.
“But the real reason is that New York’s the home base for the burgeoning, always-hungry celeb-photo press, guaranteeing coverage…The joke is that I don’t think you have to show the movie. If you say “red carpet”, they’ll come, they’ll take the pictures, they’ll ask the same [...]