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.
Contests: 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.
Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine of Ask a Ninja fame are bringing a bit of web video’s interactivity to their feature-film debut, a remake of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. The above video runs down the rules for the “Get Cast In Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes Contest,” through which the boys are soliciting videos depicting death by tomato (tomatocide?) through a YouTube channel. The winner will win a role as a “a real tomato fatality” in the film.
It looks like a couple of videos have already been uploaded to the Real Red Menace YouTube channel, where you can also watch a four-episode mini-web series called Tomatocalypse, which I’m assuming is a kind of test drive for the movie, although I can’t find any information on it anywhere.
Congratulations to Jordan Gray, creator of the above image and winner of our Presidential Zombie Photoshop Contest. Jordan, please contact us at karina AT spout.com with your mailing information so we can get you your prize. Many thanks to all who entered, and check back because we’ll be doing more contests in the near future.
The deadline for our Presidential Zombie Photoshop contest has technically already passed, but due to the madness of Cannes and the holiday, we haven’t started judging yet, so we thought we’d give stragglers a bit of extra time. If you still want to enter, you have until midnight EST tonight. See our rules and regulations here.
I don’t get to see a lot of shorts programs at festivals. So, when I went to the Independent Film Festival of Boston, I indulged in their delicious menu of shorts. One of the audience favorites was a surprising little piece from Australia. A zombie flick that–unlike most zombie movies–truly transcended its genre. In honor of our Presidential Zombie Photoshop Contest going on until May 25th, I ask you undead to dim the lights, put on your headphones and place your fingernails between your teeth.
A friendly bit of Spout promotion: over on the main site, we’re running a contest and giving away a Nintendo Wii. Just go here, agree to the legalese, follow the clues and find the treasure chests. You could be starring in your own injury clip in no time.
Here’s your final reminder: if you want a chance to win that limited-edition Diving Bell and the Butterfly one-sheet, designed by Julian Schnabel himself, go here and enter our contest. We’ll accept entries until midnight tonight, and will announce a winner on Friday.
Diving Bell and the Butterfly fans, take note: Spout is giving away a limited edition one-sheet poster, designed by Julian Schnabel, with an original poem by the painter/filmmaker imprinted on one side. We’ve pasted a detail of the poster above; you can see a larger view here. It’s a very cool prize, but we only have one to give away, so we want to make sure we give it to the right person.
So here’s what we’re going to do: sometime between now and January 29, tell us in 200-500 words why you love Schnabel and/or Diving Bell, why you deserve to win the poster, and where you’ll put it if we pick you. Post your answer, or a link to your answer on your own blog, in the comments to this post. We will review entries the last week of January and announce a winner on Friday, February 1. Good luck!
In the spirit of appropriation, email a sentence into filmcouch@spout.com. Kevin and Paul will incorporate it ever so naturally into next week’s show. The first person to identify the appropriated sentence wins a Spout track jacket from American Apparel (valued at $50).
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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