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

• Oscar's Rules of Order

  published July 29, 2010

  No screening series in Los Angeles this year is poised to have as direct an impact on the Oscar race as DocuWeeks. Produced by... More >>

• Orlando, Reissued: Who's on First?

  published July 22, 2010

  In Sally Potter's 1993 Marxist-punk-tinged Virginia Woolf adaptation, Tilda Swinton plays the titular British lord blessed... More >>

• Salt: the First (Ambiguous) Action Heroine

  published July 22, 2010

  Salt, famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina Jolie After Tom Cruise Dropped Out, has been publicized as the... More >>

• Life During Wartime: Happiness Recast

  published July 22, 2010

  Relief from a summer movie season marked by blockbuster and franchise fatigue may come in the form of an extremely unlikely... More >>

• INXS and a Paean to Excess

  published July 15, 2010

  The “Don’t Knock the Rock” series at Cinefamily (every Thursday in July) continues this week with a late-’70s... More >>

• VIagra of the masses

  published July 15, 2010

  An old-fashioned totalitarian leader might have taken over the media after assuming control of the state; contemporary Italy... More >>

• Fun and Games. Then, the Monster

  published July 15, 2010

  Click here for "The Last of  The Hills," by... More >>

• How Audrey Hepburn Shaped Sex

  published July 8, 2010

  "There was always sex in Hollywood," Sam Wasson writes in the introduction to his new book, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. "But before... More >>

• South of the Border: Natural-Born Shillers

  published July 1, 2010

  So one-sided that it nearly validates what the Right says about Hollywood's liberal crusaders, Oliver Stone's... More >>

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  Miley Cyrus "Porn," Cyber Sex, and the Hollywood Backdoor: Filmmakers on Twitter Dos and Don'ts at LAFF

  published Jun 24, 2010

  At last night's The Power of the Tweet Poolside Chat and the LA Film Festival, moderator Ari Karpel asked filmmaker Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales) what initially attracted him to Twit... More >>

• The Killer Inside Me: In a Dark Place

  published June 24, 2010

  Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me is a nasty little noir novel about Lou Ford, deputy sheriff of a small Texas... More >>

• LAFF + L.A. LIVE = Luv

  published June 17, 2010

  The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF), which opens tonight with the L.A. premiere of Lisa Cholodenko's KCRW-crowd-pleasing... More >>

• Film Führer

  published June 10, 2010

  Lecturing at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival after a screening of The Great Sacrifice, the hallucinatory romance... More >>

• Gogi Gui and a Movie?

  published June 10, 2010

  You could hear it — and smell it — but you couldn't see it. Last Friday night, a movie theater opened at Madang, a... More >>

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  Prop 8 Movie: Dustin Lance Black on Villaraigosa, Arizona and Gay Marriage

  published Jun 08, 2010

  That documentary about the Mormon church's nefarious (and successful) plot to outlaw gay marriage in California, 8: The Mormon Proposition, had its LA premiere Tuesday night at the Egyptian Theater i... More >>

• Men and the City

  published June 3, 2010

  In Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a comedy of love triangles produced by Judd Apatow and directed by Nicholas Stoller, British comedian... More >>

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  Dennis Hopper Dies, Easy Rider Star/Director Was 74

  published May 29, 2010

  Dennis Hopper has died at his home in Venice, after a battle with prostate cancer. The actor/director/artist recently received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his long, storied career, which... More >>

• Rambo: First Film

  published May 27, 2010

  A feature-length video-film made for less than $100, Flooding With Love for the Kid retells the story of John Rambo,... More >>

• Human Centipede: Play Along At Home

  published May 25, 2010

  Surely by now you've heard of The Human Centipede, the extreme twist on torture porn that's taking the nation by storm (or, at least, sold out enough midnight shows at the Nuart that it expanded to th... More >>

• Children of the '80s, All "Grown Up"

  published May 20, 2010

  MacGruber (Will Forte), a highly decorated soldier of fortune known for "making life-saving inventions out of household... More >>

• Brendan Lott: Newsman

  published May 20, 2010

  Brendan Lott is an artist. I met him when he was studying film at San Francisco Art Institute, where we were both undergrads... More >>

• Sanaa Hamri: Through an L.A. Lens

  published May 20, 2010

  Local is a word that often comes up in conversation with filmmaker Sanaa Hamri. She had to temporarily... More >>

• Hadrian Belove: Pathologically Idiosyncratic Programming

  published May 20, 2010

  In the lobby of the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax, a set of stairs leads to the hidden headquarters of Cinefamily, the... More >>

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  3-DIY: LA 3-D Movie Festival showcases indies

  published May 14, 2010

  When it comes to 3-D films, says Eric Kurland of the Los Angeles 3-D Club (SCSC), "There's a certain audience expectation--people expect things to pop out at you." Those expectations are likely to be ... More >>

• Robin Hood: Knock on Sherwood Forest

  published May 13, 2010

  Is it an accident that Ridley Scott's Robin Hood plays like a rousing love letter to the tea party movement? It's... More >>