August 22, 2008 – 11:32 am
On Monday, I’m flying to Denver to spend a couple of days hanging around the Democratic National Convention before heading up to Telluride on Thursday. If I was reading that sentence unawares, two questions would inevitably come to mind. First: “Why, Karina, are you going to a political event when you have a movie blog [...]
Earlier this week, Jonathan Marlow published a rant on GreenCine Daily, titled They didn’t build their sales model for you. Much of the piece is given over to a description of the dire state of distribution affairs for truly independent filmmakers. Marlow, who acquires films for GreenCine’s DVD-by-mail main site, essentially argues that filmmakers should [...]
January 9, 2008 – 1:33 pm
…Bloggers To Pretend Like They Didn’t See It Coming.
October 31, 2007 – 5:06 am
Plus: The American Film Market gets underway, and David Wain and Paul Rudd join forces again.
September 28, 2007 – 8:00 am
Months ago, I wrote a post about rumors that Jaman.com (a service that lets you rent or purchase foreign and festival films online for less than five bucks apiece) was working on a method to make their films viewable on the AppleTV. As I explained then, this was exciting news for me, because I bought [...]
August 3, 2007 – 10:00 am
Via The House Next Door comes this post from Scanners, where Jim Emerson (editor of Roger Ebert’s website) pays tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni by posting a letter to Ebert from actor Ronan O’Casey. The letter dates back to 1999: Casey, who played the corpse at the center of Antonioni’s biggest commercial hit Blow-up, read an [...]
August 1, 2007 – 10:28 am
On last week’s edition of FilmCouch, I revealed one of my dirtiest secrets: on some level, I’m more interested in bad movies than good ones. You’ll have to listen to the podcast to hear my explanation, but coincidentally, I’ve come across a number of stories over the past few days that revolve around quantifying and [...]
Karina Longworth, (former editor of Cinematical) is joining spout.com. We met shortly after SXSW, where she had noticed us covering the festival. We talked a bit about what we’d like SpoutBlog to be, about how we binge on interviews and blog posts at festivals, then go back to the office where the day to day [...]
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.
February 28, 2007 – 10:25 am
A nostalgia for silent films is growing, but so is a whole paradigm shift for bringing together silent filmmaking and new technology.
