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

• Trash Humpers: Talking Tall

  published May 13, 2010

  Trash Humpers is not really a movie. Or so its credited writer/director, sometime indie-film enfant terrible... More >>

• The Human Centipede: Girl-Man-Girl Interrupted

  published May 6, 2010

  In Tom Six's torture-porn game-changer The Human Centipede, an evil German doctor (Dieter Laser) kidnaps a Japanese... More >>

• Commitment to the Raiders

  published May 6, 2010

  In the opening scene of Straight Outta LA, two globally franchised multihyphenate multimillionaires stroll around a... More >>

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  Twilight: Eclipse to Premiere at LA Film Fest

  published May 04, 2010

  Tweens and cinephiles, Get Excited: The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival lineup has been released, and highlights include the world premiere of the next installment of the Twilight series, Eclipse (but ... More >>

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  Lindsay Lohan as porn star Linda Lovelacer

  published May 03, 2010

  According to E! Online, tabloid staple Lindsay Lohan--these days best known for getting denied entry from both nightclubs and movie sets--is set to star in Inferno, a biopic of Deep Throat star Linda ... More >>

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  Iggy Pop, Movie Star

  published Apr 27, 2010

  Last night I went to the premiere of Search and Destroy: Iggy And The Stooges Raw Power, a short documentary included in the just-released limited edition Raw Power box set. The big draw of the film i... More >>

• Search and Destroy: The New Iggy and The Stooges Documentary on the Raw Power Box Set

  published Apr 27, 2010

  Last night, while Iron Man 2 had its world premiere a few blocks down on Hollywood Boulevard, Morgan Neville's new doc Search and Destroy: Iggy And The Stooges' Raw Power was unveiled to a packed hous... More >>

• Na'vi Nerds: Meet the man who created the language

  published Apr 21, 2010

  Attention, super-avid Avatar fans who are also into linguistics: Paul Frommer, the USC professor who created the Na'vi language used in James Cameron's film, will be lecturing and signing DVDs at La... More >>

• A Star Is Reborn

  published April 22, 2010

  It was the money-grubbing movie-studio fuckup to end all money-grubbing movie-studio fuckups. George Cukor's epic musical... More >>

• Hitler Mounts Surprisingly Cogent Defense of Hitler Parody Videos

  published Apr 21, 2010

  Yesterday we blogged about the push by the German distributor of Downfall to clear YouTube of the many Hitler parody videos making use of the same scene from that film. As I noted in that post, I love... More >>

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  LACMA Film: Back on the endangered listr

  published Apr 20, 2010

  La Chienne (The Bitch), by Jean Renoir, screened at LACMA last month. For a month last summer, it looked like the venerable film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was going to disappea... More >>

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  Thank Fucking God: The DOWNFALL Meme may be near death

  published Apr 20, 2010

  A totally made-up, mostly internet-fueled holiday like 4/20 can only mean one thing: Hitler's gonna be mad. But before you upload your "Hitler finds out Himmler got stoned and let all Jews go free" Do... More >>

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  Godard, zombies and the economy: ColCoa French film festival starts tonight

  published Apr 19, 2010

  This post is by Doug Cummings, author of the world cinema blog FilmJourney.org. Since 1996, the annual City of Lights, City of Angeles film festival has offered a week of North American and world pr... More >>

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  Phoenix captures LA sound for new Sofia Coppola movie

  published Apr 19, 2010

  International hipster supercouple Sofia Coppola (daughter of Francis Ford, ex-wife of Spike Jonze, Oscar winner for Lost in Translation) and Thomas Mars (lead singer of Phoenix, ie that French band yo... More >>

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  Thanks, Eyjafjallajokull! Iron Man Premiere Moved to LA

  published Apr 19, 2010

  Even Iron Man can't fly through volcanic ash. With air travel over Europe still suspended due to the massive fallout from the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, Paramount has announced th... More >>

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  Prop 8 Movie Exposes Mormon Meddling

  published Apr 16, 2010

  Reed Cowan used to be a Mormon missionary, with, he says, "knowledge of Mormon strategy at the highest levels." Now he's an activist against the Mormon church, working to out what he sees as the Chur... More >>

• Anna Karina Speaks (and dances and sings)

  published Apr 15, 2010

  Talking to David Ehrenstein in today's edition of the Weekly, 60s icon Anna Karina reminisces about her life and work as the wife/muse of French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard (a restored print of... More >>

• Girlish but Guttural: the Games People Play With

  published April 15, 2010

  "Avant-game," a co-programming venture of Los Angeles Filmforum and UCLA's Melnitz Movies and student gaming organization LUDUS, spotlights... More >>

• Kick-Ass: Half-Ass

  published April 15, 2010

  Kick-Ass, the Matthew Vaughn–directed adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s graphic novel,... More >>

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  Diane Keaton as Nikki Finke

  published Apr 13, 2010

  HitFix.com is reporting that Diane Keaton has been cast in the titular role in Tilda, an HBO comedy pilot reportedly based on much-feared Deadline Hollywood columnist-turned-blogger/ Nikki Finke. Very... More >>

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  Faux Hookers, Bartending Kids at Banksy Premiere

  published Apr 13, 2010

  Exit Through the Gift Shop, the documentary starring (and apparently detourned by) street artist Banksy, had its LA premiere last night at the grand old Los Angeles Theater in Downtown LA. In our cov... More >>

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  Streamy Awards: Flipping Off Hollywood, or Embracing Itr

  published Apr 12, 2010

  I didn't go to the Streamy Awards, but I did follow it on Twitter (I am already living in a hyper-connected future that doesn't require actually leaving my house.) Judging only by how the event was re... More >>

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  Fracking Doc GASLAND Hush-Hush Opens in LA

  published Apr 09, 2010

  Gasland, Josh Fox's riveting personal documentary in which the filmmaker travels the country tracking the human cost of "fracking," a controversial method of natural gas drilling (think inexplicable... More >>

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  Malcolm McLaren is Dead

  published Apr 08, 2010

  Malcolm McLaren, the art/punk swindler/genius who managed the Sex Pistols, died this morning in Switzerland. He had cancer, and was 64. Throughout a spotty but rather fascinating forty year career i... More >>

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  LA Film Fest Moves to LA Live

  published Apr 08, 2010

  This morning the Los Angeles Film Festival announced that they're moving the show downtown. LAFF had been based in Westwood for the past four festivals, but the event's growing size and the concurren... More >>