Summer | SpoutBlog

AFTRA and Inconvenient Kinks. Trade Roughage 07/08/08

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

AFTRA will announce the results of their guild’s ratification vote on a prospective contract with the AMPTP today. It’s said to be “widely anticipated the terms will be accepted,” despite SAG’s pressure on their overlapping union to vote no in order to get a new/more favorable deal.
Robert Schwartz looks at three of New York’s outdoor summer film festivals, including Rooftop Films.
William “Cruising” Friedkin will direct the Milan premiere of the opera based on An Inconvenient Truth.
Kinky Boots, one of those newfangled British comedies where somebody saves something through the power of something that somebody else thinks is naughty, is going to become a Broadway musical.

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

The subject of today’s Friday Screen Test interview at DVD Panache is film blog hero David Hudson of GreenCine Daily. An excerpt, regarding something he learned from watching movies: “I’m going to have to be a little cryptic…I walked into the film in a state of torment, not even realizing that what was tearing me up was the need to make a decision. When I walked out, I realized that I was facing a choice that hadn’t been clear to me before. And I knew damn well which way I’d have to decide. And, sorry, but I’ll have to leave it at that. I will say, though, that, as is often the case is such situations, the movie wasn’t even a particularly good one!”
This Vanity Fair chart weirdly lumps Cannes in with a number of summer music events, including Coachella and the “Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.” You’ll have to judge its accuracy for yourself, but I made it through ten days in the South of France without going near a yacht, a bellini nor cocaine. I swear.
Congratulations are in order for Friends of Spout David Lowery and Dia Sokol, whose feature projects (respectively: St. Nick and Sorry, Thanks; the latter stars another FoS, Wiley Wiggins) have been selected for IFP’s Independent Filmmakers Lab, which means they’ll also make the short list for a new $50,000 grant.