Email Author Karina Longworth

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 5, 2010

  "Sundance's Rebel Yell"

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2010 Stories by Karina Longworth

• Another Year Review

  published December 30, 2010

  Another Year, the 10th feature-length British soap written and directed by Mike Leigh, concerns a year in the life of... More >>

• Blue Valentine Movie Review

  published December 30, 2010

  When the MPAA handed Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating this fall, cynics suggested the so-called... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  The Social Network, Or Why I Quit Facebook

  published Dec 23, 2010

  Facebook mastermind Mark Zuckerberg has been named by TIME Magazine as the 2010 Man of the Year. Countless awards bodies, polls (including the Village Voice/LA Weekly Film Poll) and film critics gro... More >>

• The Top 10 Films of 2010

  published December 23, 2010

  Every four years, the American people act en masse to send a message to the nation's power brokers, and every four years this... More >>

• COUNTRY STRONG

  published December 23, 2010

  COUNTRY STRONG The Courtney Love of country stars, Kelly Canter (an inconsistently twanging Gwyneth Paltrow), has been forced by... More >>

• Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart Grieve Tastefully in Rabbit Hole

  published December 16, 2010

  Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole plops us... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Sofia Coppola: Lost at the Chateau Marmont

  published December 16, 2010

  Sofia Coppola had her 21st birthday party at the Chateau Marmont — a fact she had forgotten until Phil Pavel, the hotel... More >>

• And Everything Is Going Fine

  published December 9, 2010

  "Maybe I should just tell you some of the facts as I remember them," Spalding Gray says a few minutes into And Everything... More >>

• The Company Men: Men Without Balls

  published December 9, 2010

  Tracking the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Boston-based... More >>

• Carrie Fisher Could Tell Stories, But They Might Kill You

  published December 9, 2010

  Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher's one-woman show-turned-book-turned–one-woman show, premieres as a feature-length concert film... More >>

• L.A. Animation Festival

  published December 2, 2010

  "Novelty" is often used as a pejorative: Think Weird Al singles and stuff like the toilet plungers Adam Sandler sells in... More >>

• Atomic Pop

  published November 25, 2010

  With tongues partially in cheek, Disco and Atomic War director Jaak Kilmi and screenwriter Kiur Aarma, who grew up in the same... More >>

• Burlesque: Stripped

  published November 25, 2010

  "She doesn't sing that way because she's had it easy." This is how Tess (Cher), the long-suffering owner of the nightclub at... More >>

• Hollywood Rehab

  published November 18, 2010

  A sequel to his 2006 Hollywood Dreams, Henry Jaglom's Queen of the Lot again stars Tanna Frederick as Maggie, an Iowa... More >>

• Punked in Spain

  published November 18, 2010

  There are two surprising things about Straight to Hell Returns, the digitally spiffed-up version of Alex Cox's 1987... More >>

• An Illustrated Look at Dino De Laurentiis' Films

  published Nov 12, 2010

  When legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis died yesterday at the age of 91, he left behind a filmography spanning six decades, several continents, and pretty much every conceivable film genre, fr... More >>

• MORNING GLORY

  published November 11, 2010

  MORNING GLORY In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in the kind of cocktail dress a screen heroine wears... More >>

• Godard, American-Style

  published November 11, 2010

  Jim McBride's Breathless has a bad reputation. The 1983 variation on Jean-Luc Godard's paradigm-changing debut feature —... More >>

• How To See Movies For Free: A Guide to AFI Fest Ticketing

  published Nov 04, 2010

  This week's big local film story is the launch of AFI Fest 2010, which begins tonight with a gala screening of the naked Anne Hathaway movie Love and Other Drugs, and will screen over 60 features ov... More >>

• DUE DATE

  published November 4, 2010

  DUE DATE In Due Date, a skinny, scowly and dryly self-referential Robert Downey Jr. meets a chubby, beardy, quasi-autistic Zach Galifianakis... More >>

• Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams

  published November 4, 2010

  Werner Herzog may have made his latest documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, in 3-D, but the chameleonic German... More >>

• AFI Fest 2010: Something New, Something Old

  published November 4, 2010

  In 2009, in an attempt to redefine its annual AFI Film Festival aesthetically, geographically and economically, as a maverick... More >>

• THE TWO ESCOBARS

  published October 28, 2010

  THE TWO ESCOBARS In a 1994 World Cup game against the U.S., Colombian soccer superstar Andre Escobar scored a decisive goal... More >>

• MONSTERS

  published October 28, 2010

  GO  MONSTERS A road-trip romance thick with sci-fi circumstance, Monsters imagines a... More >>

• "My Favorite Thing in the World"

  published October 28, 2010

  The most powerful man in American film comedy today, Judd Apatow was the key force behind a cultural cross-fade that has seen... More >>