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SpoutBlog has your live Oscar coverage

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By Chris Thilk posted 9 months ago
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If you’re looking for one place to tune into online for commentary and reactions to this year’s Oscars broadcast your search is now over: Karina and the rest of the SpoutBlog team will be live-tweeting the Oscars this year, sending in their thougts on who won, who didn’t and all the rest of the goings-on.

As the countdown to the ceremony commences, Karina has also been participating in the Oscar Symposium held by Nathaniel R. along with other movie writers, a virtual round-table that apparently includes comparisons of Frank Langella’s performance as Richard Nixon to to a Muppet and some…emotional reactions to that commentary.

You can also join in the discussion leading up to the awards yourself by joining the It’s a Wonder Night for Oscar group on Spout. Make your predictions, weigh in on other people’s thoughts and generally get yourself up to speed on what people are thinking in the lead-up to the ceremony.

–Chris Thilk, Director of Marketing

BlogNosh 2/22/08

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By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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BlogNosh 11/01/07

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By Karina Longworth posted 2 years ago
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  • Lady Wakasa makes a strong case in defense of Lust, Caution. “It’s true that there are elements in the story that won’t be clear to some Western audiences…There are universalities that can be picked up: about the effects of environment and upbringing, about the nature of love, about what in relationships is and isn’t an act, how war is hell with a twist. But these universalities are filtered through a Chinese lens. As such, I think it’s up to the Westerners to go the extra mile and fill in blanks they find. The shoe on the other foot, to a certain degree.”
  • The Shamus thought Contempt was “about nothing more than the pneumatic perfection of Brigitte Bardot’s ass,” but a later Godard film went over much better. “Masculin-Feminin strikes me as a Warhol-esque montage of the ’60s as we wanted them to truly be, with more going on under the surface than we might want to admit.”
  • A holdover from the heady days immediately following Dumbledore’s outing … you know, last week: Joe Leydon writes that he’s “occasionally had students ask me — earnestly, not snickeringly — if certain movie characters are intended to be interpreted as gay…The two names that pop up most often during these “Is he or isn’t he?” queries: Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten) of Citizen Kane and Cosmo Brown (Donald O’Connor) of Singin’ in the Rain.”
  • The Flaming Lips sent 1000 skeletons on parade in Oklahoma City. Scott Solary links to the video evidence.
  • For the record, I would like to note that I recorded my segment of this week’s episode of Film Couch, about actresses who have played Joan of Arc, way back on Tuesday. At the time, I had no idea Jeff Wells would use multiple Saint Joan references to mock Tom O’Neill’s unflappable faith that Sweeney Todd has a chance in hell of winning multiple Oscars.