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Webby Film And Video Awards: Best (and Worst) Acceptance Speeches

June 10, 2008 – 1:00 am

Michel Gondry, Lorne Michaels, and a young girl foolishly brave enough to publicly snog Judah Friedlander make our list of the best and worst 5-word acceptance speeches at the 2008 Webby Film and Video Awards.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Awards, Technology & Web | Comments (8)

Indie Implosion, Several Kinds of Awful: BlogNosh 05/12/08

May 12, 2008 – 6:00 pm

“Over the last 10 weeks, the independent film “industry” has been restructured before our eyes,” writes Bob Alexander at the Indiepix blog. “Is the world of indie film burning up? Or is a new era about to emerge?”
Defamer points to seven clips from the Sex and the City movie, posted over at BlackFilm.com. I [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community, Humor | Comments (0)

Superheroes and Celebrity Resurrection: SpoutBlog Week in Review

May 9, 2008 – 6:00 pm

Contrary to the connotations of that headline, we did talk about something other than Robert Downey Jr this week.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Tokyo! Trailer

May 8, 2008 – 10:45 am

Twitch has a trailer for Tokyo!, the omnibus film with contributions from Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon Ho which will premiere next week at Cannes (ed. note: ahhh! I’m going to the South of France next week!). As far as trailers go, it’s not much of anything––it’s basically just footage of the [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film festivals, Video, cannes 2008 | Comments (0)

Michel Gondry Wins a Webby

May 6, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Michel Gondry has won the Webby Film and Video Award for Person of the Year, for inventing the concept of Sweding, which took the internet by storm for seven minutes in February. Yay for him! Because I don’t care about Sweding at all, let’s use this as an excuse to watch 10 minutes of Eternal [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Awards, Indies | Comments (1)