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SpoutBlog Week in Review

“You know neither of us are really very creative people, Joe. I mean, I have filmmaker friends who walk around generating plot ideas all the time, but shit, when I walk down the street, all I do is brood about my friends and my loved ones and really zero in on all the attending barbs and snags and accrued resentments that seem to get in the way of closeness.” Ronnie Bronstein pulls back the curtain on himself and Joe Swanberg in the latest installment of our Butterknife interviews. See also: Butterknife stills.
??On this week’s podcast: An argument about No Country For Old Men, a love letter to Billy the Kid.
Sundance goes trolling for submissions on YouTube. Slamdance, as far we know, doesn’t.
Huey Lewis, Seth Rogen, and the return of the plot song.
There Will Be Blood: more aptly titled than you might imagine.
Why Billy the Kid is the anti-Juno.
Karina is SUCH an Elliott Gould fangirl.
Does Silent Light seem any less brilliant, now that we know it was inspired in part by freeware?
Imagining a post-Gawker age of less-cynical criticism.
The National Board of Review: Old, but generally inoffensive.
Michel Gondry’s remake of Dancer in the Dark. Sort of.
The Speed Racer trailer leads to an unexpected outpouring of love for The Postman.
Chris looks into a couple of new techy things that feed on every cinephile’s desire to be alone with people.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: behold the bizarre.
No one has C & Ded us on these Heath Ledger Joker pics. Yet.
Knocking Knocked Up is SO boring.
WIN AT YELLING!!!??