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Here Come the Death Squads. SpoutBlog Week in Review

June 27, 2008 – 5:02 pm

Los Angeles Film Festival: karaoke, Finishing Heaven, party pics
SilverDocs: Alternative American Teens
The Death Squads and The Film Critics
Related: blogging hasn’t cured Peter Bart’s blogophobia.
Videos: Cartoon porn, Cartoon George Carlin, Star Wars meets Princess Bride, Wii Lightsaber, Disaster, Latvian Ghostbusters.
On FilmCouch: The death of George Carlin inspires talk of “life-changing” comedies.
Lists: The Most Critically-Acclaimed Action [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Week in Review | Comments (1)

Academy Growth. Trade Roughage 06/24/08

June 24, 2008 – 11:30 am

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has invited 105 member of the industry to join their gang, including 2008 Oscar winners Marion Cotillard and Diablo Cody. Insert stripper to Hollywood establishment joke…here.
Jeffrey Katzenberg presented “clips, storyboards and early animation sequences from” several Dreamworks animation films in the works at the CinemaExpo in Amsterdam [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Hollywood | Comments (0)

SilverDocs Diary: Alternative American Teens

June 23, 2008 – 10:07 am

It’s title may sound definitive, but AMERICAN TEEN is not the only doc about American teens on the festival circuit.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Festivals, SilverDocs 2008 | Comments (2)

CineVegas, Cyd & Spike: SpoutBlog Week in Review

June 20, 2008 – 6:24 pm

Lists: 5 Unsexy Movies About Sex, 15 Films That Offended Religious Groups; Ethnic Cinematic Atrocities and the Fake Beards That Enabled Them; 10 Movies That Beat Get Smart To The Punch;
CineVegas: Britney Spears, Finally Lillian and Dan, Memorial Day; pictures
SilverDocs: Spike Lee and refugees
RIP, Cyd Charisse.
Proof that the I Dream of Jeannie movie could be [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Week in Review | Comments (2)

SilverDocs: Spike Lee

June 19, 2008 – 10:29 pm

Spike Lee mocks Tyler Perry, and dishes on new projects about Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and Barack Obama.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Festivals, SilverDocs 2008 | Comments (8)

SilverDocs Diary: Sleeping With the Past

June 19, 2008 – 12:37 pm

A coincidental SilverDocs double-feature of two films about refugees in limbo.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Festivals, SilverDocs 2008, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

SilverDocs: Spike Lee to be honored

April 24, 2008 – 12:47 pm

I’ve been making plans travel plans for the next couple of months this week, and it looks like in mid-June I’ll be making my first trip to SilverDocs. And look: they’ve just made their first major program announcement:
Spike Lee, the Oscar-nominated director of Do the Right Thing, will be honored at this year’s Silverdocs film [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Festivals, SilverDocs 2008 | Comments (2)