Next week, Karina’s boyfriend is putting a padlock on her laptop and dragging her on vacation. Two fine guest bloggers will be sitting at her virtual desk while she’s gone. On Monday, you’ll enjoy the text stylings of Ms. Pamela Cohn. Pamela’s blog Still in Motion is an excellent resource for in-depth conversations with documentary filmmakers; she’s also a filmmaker and a contributor to a number of sites. And on Tuesday, drop by and spend some time with Christopher Campbell, who you may recognize from his bylines on The Reeler and Cinematical. Posting will be light on Wednesday-Friday due to the holiday, but we’ll be back on our regular schedule Monday the 26th.

On my very first day as a SpoutBlogger, I wrote about a whiny blog post on MySpace by Eli Roth, in which the Hostel auteur blamed both film critics and piracy for the relative failure of Hostel 2, and ultimately declared that he was taking a year off from filmmaking. But don’t worry, he was just joshing! His next project already has an August 2008 release date.

Trailer Trash, according to an email sent by Roth to Bloody-Disgusting, will be a comedy consisting entirely of spoofy movie trailers. Roth says the project is “inspired” by the making of Thanksgiving, his MPAA-baiting contribution to Grindhouse, which Roth describes as “the most fun I’ve ever had filming anything.”

You can watch Thanksgiving above. Keep in mind, it’s not safe for work. Or, like, anywhere.

So we went a little nuts at the Denver Film Festival–just shy of 50 podcasts went up on SpoutBlog and the Denver sitelet. But unless you’re really bored this Thanksgiving weekend, we realize you won’t have time to sit down and listen to them one by one. We thought we would help out by highlighting a handful of our favorites. Like all greatest hits albums, it’s not going to provide the full experience, but it at least gives you a good sense for what was going on in Denver. Listen in…

- Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella talking about his newest film, Breaking and Entering.

- Angie Avarez discussing her mockumentary about high school teachers, Chalk.

- Brothers and ultimate collaborators Aaron and Adam Nee talking about their film The Last Romantic.

- Filmmaker David Gow and the two impressive male leads in Steel Toes.

- Sister team Amy and Andrea Doe talking about making Saucy Flyer UFO P.I..

- Filmmaker Matthew Porterfield discussing being a kindergarten teacher and how he made his documentary Hamilton.

- Samira Goetschel and her controversial film Our Own Private Bin Laden.

- The November 15 Roundtable Recap with Bill, Kevin and Dave, talking about nine or so films they had just watched.

- The unexpected interview with Will Ferrell and his wife Viveca Paulin, focusing on Paulin’s work on the film Nail Polish.

- Richard Berge and his documentary The Rape of Europa, which explores the plunder of Europe’s art treasures during WWII.

- Our first conversation with Canadian cinema verite treasure Allan King.

- One amazing question and one amazing answer from Tim Robbins.

- The November 17 Roundtable Recap with Dave, Paul, Kristin and Kevin, who shares a great story about the Tim Robbins event.

- Another great director with an impressive list of films, Michael Apted, discussing the inspirational aspects of his new historical film Amazing Grace.