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NYFF: So Much Adultery, So Little Love

Noticing a fair amount of thematic overlap amongst the films selected for this year’s New York Film Festival, Filmbrain has created a visual aid, awarding 15 of the Festival’s official selections unhappy faces for their representations of things like divorce, adultery, and daddy issues. The exercise reveals that, amongst the 30-something films on this year’s [...]

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.

People at SXSW: Jennifer Venditti (Billy the Kid)

The Spout team went to Billy the Kid (2007) last night and really loved it. Paul interviews director Jennifer Venditti before the premier about her new documentary. By the end of the interview, we were sold and the doc definitely lives up to Venditti’s hype.

 
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Love on the decline

Why is a good love story getting more and more difficult to find?

Strategies, tricks, and plain old love

How much math, science, game-playing, strategy and love are involved in the Oscars?

Films.

We love them and crave them-they’re the glue that holds people together at Spout. They inspire us to respond in some way, or in other words, to be more human: to laugh, cry, form an opinion, develop a new idea, sit in stunned silence.
When we Tag them, we sort our films into categories that work [...]

Manifesto Statement 7

Exercise your freedom to love what you love, but don’t love it because you’ve never tried anything else. Say you eat one soft-boiled egg with a piece of white toast every morning for breakfast. Or maybe you only ever watch films that show up in the theater or at the big rental establishment down the [...]