People changing films and films changing people is what we're all about here.
Paul interviews Rolf de Heer, the most inspiring filmmaker alive. His movie,
Ten Canoes, is in theaters now and the story behind making it is unlike any other film out there.
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What are the origins of story? We interview Justin Evans about his new book-to-be-movie. We also talk to actor Jeremy Davies and producer Harry Knapp about
Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog's new film.
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We love artists when we get to see them tortured. Why?
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New in theaters, Rolf de Heer's Ten Canoes and Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart, Angelina Jolie's passion project. Both deal with marginalized people and raise the question, "Can westerners make a movie to help us understand non-western people?" Dances with...
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Karina Longworth, (former editor of Cinematical) is joining spout.com. We met shortly after SXSW, where she had noticed us covering the festival. We talked a bit about what we'd like SpoutBlog to be, about how we binge on interviews and...
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Downloading movies is a slow process that most people don't have time to bother with, but it won't always be that way. What will we do when even more movies compete for our attention?
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Spout's Rick DeVos tells an Austin Chronicle reporter how community, non-Hollywood style, works.
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Spout's new weekly podcast is called FilmCouch and it's for your Friday pleasure.
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When we asked spout.com experts to tell us what they considered "essential" films, they gladly shared their wealth of information and opinions. That's the Spout community at its best.
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Our first film event, like the best of experiements, suceeded in moving us and teaching us.
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Summer's here. So is our favorite festival—the Waterfront Film Festival. We're hosting the opening night outdoor viewing (can you say inflatable movie screen?) of
Pittsburgh, and talking to people about all we've been up to at Spout since Waterfront last year.
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We haven't chronicled a bit of the excitement over the past three months, but thankfully we've had some others kind enough to help out. We're certainly not media darlings, but the story is compelling.
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SpoutBlog is back. We missed the stimulation of ideas generated here. We missed hearing from all of you. And the issues are out there, buzzing around, looking for somewhere to land.
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Not a whole lot going on here on the SpoutBlog but there has been a lot going on in the office. SPOUT'S BETA SITE IS UP! http://spout.com Check it out. And if you're going to be at SXSW next week,...
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So the film world is crackling with anticipation over how we'll get our films in the future. Caveh Zahedi wrote an eloquent manifesto for self-distribution in Filmmaker Magazine. Withoutabox.com, Myspace.com, and Yahoo! My Movies all want to make some type...
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This year, Park City, among other things, is abuzz with what the Internet will do to make films accessible that weren't accessible before. For instance, in the Queer Lounge at Sundance, withoutabox.com announced some basic community tools on their website...
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Conversations are important- they keep a marriage alive, a business running smoothly, and whole countries intact. Unfortunately, conversations with yourself are not very fulfilling. They require a community, and they're at the heart of what makes Spout a community. In...
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We love them and crave them-they're the glue that holds people together at Spout. They inspire us to respond in some way, or in other words, to be more human: to laugh, cry, form an opinion, develop a new idea,...
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We are people-not animal, not a computer algorithm. We can get inside another person's mind and begin to understand not just the WHAT but the WHY. It seems natural to connect people to films and films to people. At Spout,...
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A guy and a girl are sitting in a bar. They're discussing general things like work and mutual friends. She makes a film reference, he picks up on it, then the bartender, who has just come over to see if...
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There are some stories I never tire of. Stories told through books, stage or film that I go back to over and over. Now that I'm performing in the stage version of The Wizard of Oz for 26 performances, I've...
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Yesterday was Halloween. A day when it is acceptable to have perfect strangers knock on your door and ask for candy. I love it. My wife and I had so much fun handing out candy last year, we decided to...
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There can be too much of a good thing. Surrounding yourself with the most savvy mavens and watching only the most avant-garde films and eating only food that's too unusual to even name gets old after a while. Every once...
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The Midwest is a special place. Granted, it doesn't have real mountains or the ocean or a film metropolis like New York or LA, but we love it. There's a certain unpretentiousness, a genuineness, and a real drive to make...
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Life doesn't fit into neatly labeled packages. Neither do films. "Action, comedy, drama and horror" are sadly insufficient labels. Can you remember the last time you could neatly label a day in your life with one of those terms? Neither...
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Moving forward involves looking back. Even if it's writing one sentence each morning on a piece of paper you keep on the bedside table or making lists of films you love. As time goes by, you can look back and...
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Continuing Education is a state of being. The best educational experience is the one that we seek out of our passions. Being intentional (doing a bit of research, asking some questions) helps really suck the juice out of an educational...
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Exercise your freedom to love what you love, but don't love it because you've never tried anything else. Say you eat one soft-boiled egg with a piece of white toast every morning for breakfast. Or maybe you only ever watch...
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Lists are indispensable. Lists are how we keep track of things and define who we are. A list of my favorite books, a list of places I've lived, a list of friends I have or no longer have. Lists are...
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Old-fashioned community-building is underrated. We each probably have one or two close friends we could happily spend all our time with, but we think bringing together a broader community-many different people with different strengths, opinions, and backgrounds-is where we can...
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Humans are humans. Computers are computers. In some way, we're all on a human journey together. Films are helpful tools along the way. A computer can try to guess WHAT film we may want to watch, but only another human...
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I've been asked the same question a lot lately. The question is, "So what is it Spout will do?" First off, I have to say that it was finally David Lowery from Road Dog Productions asking the question that got...
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Great films don't have to be promoted by Hollywood. We now live in a world where one passionate person can pick up a camera and make a film. In the same sort of way, now one passionate advocate can promote...
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It takes a village to watch a film. Maybe we've been conditioned by the multiplex to believe the movie experience starts when the movie starts and ends when it ends. Imagine, instead, sitting around a campfire that's playing The Godfather....
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To help us better understand what we are doing here at Spout, we came up with an incomplete manifesto. Incomplete because there is always room to add more. It's a series of statements that sum up what we really believe...
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Yesterday was a banner day for Spout.com. On the day Harriet Miers was nominated to be a Supreme Court Justice, she had a moment to take a break and check an email or two then (obviously) zip over to check...
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I want to throw this out there and see what you guys think. I've written about people finding films and how lacking in nuance that process can be. I've written that humans are the best source for an educated suggestion...
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A little over a year ago, my friends and I were tossing around thoughts about how lately films and filmmaking seem to be going in an interesting direction. These thoughts started turning into ideas. Then we got together to work...
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