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

• Pulp Fiction: Aaron Katz's Cold Weather

  published Mar 14, 2010

  The first unqualified hit of 2010 SXSW Film Festival premiered last night to a packed crowd (including recent Oscar snubbee Jason Reitman) at Austin's Alamo Ritz. Cold Weather, directed by two-time SX... More >>

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  Meg White Cries: White Stripes Doc Reveals Mysteries Behind the Band

  published Mar 13, 2010

  "Make as much noise as you want," recommended The White Stripes: Under Great Northern Lights director Emmett Malloy, before the film's premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on Friday night. In practice, ... More >>

• 6 SXSW Film Must-Sees

  published Mar 11, 2010

  If you're heading to Austin for the SXSW Interactive or Music festivals and have a Gold or Platinum badge, you can use it to get into screenings at the SXSW Film Festival, which starts today and runs... More >>

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  Oscar Winner Brings Lost B Movie to Egyptian Theater

  published Mar 11, 2010

  Bob Murawski just won an Oscar for editing Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, a long-in-the-works indie project that came seemingly out of nowhere to earn the respect and accolades of the Academy. No... More >>

• Stranger Than Fiction: The Hurt Locker's Many Surprises

  published March 11, 2010

  The 82nd Academy Awards offered a referendum on what Oscar voters value versus what moviegoers are willing to pay for. ... More >>

• Driving Mr. Greenberg

  published March 11, 2010

  Noah Baumbach is 40 years old. He just learned how to drive. A native New Yorker, the writer/director started spending time in... More >>

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  Corey Haim Found Dead

  published Mar 10, 2010

  Corey Haim, the 38 year-old former teen idol (you may remember, as I certainly do, that he fucking owned the heyday of Bop Magazine) and star of The Lost Boys and License to Drive, has died of what ap... More >>

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  The Cove's Oscar Cockblock

  published Mar 08, 2010

  The Academy has a lot of stupid and/or controversial rules regarding the Best Documentary category, and one of them is that only two people can be nominated for a given non-fiction film--generally, th... More >>

• Word of Mouth Goes Far at 82nd Academy Awards: Why The Hurt Locker's Win is Truly Groundbreaking

  published Mar 08, 2010

  The 82nd Academy Awards were a referendum on what Oscar voters value, versus what moviegoers are willing to pay for. The headline will be Kathryn Bigelow's stunning, groundbreaking achievement as the... More >>

• Daily Show Ancestors, and Dosa Truck

  published Mar 04, 2010

  I know it sometimes must seem like I'm obsessed with Cinefamily and their amazing film programming at the Silent Movie Theater; that is only because I am. Tonight, they're launching a new series cal... More >>

• Alice in Chains: Tim Burton in La-La Land

  published March 6, 2010

  Between the candy-colored, kid-friendly billboards sprinkled across urban areas and the hipster music blogs hyping soundtrack... More >>

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  Oscar Scandals Caught on Tape

  published Mar 03, 2010

  Oscar night rapidly approaches, and the show's new producer, Adam Shankman (the director of The Pacifier, Prop 8: The Musical, and Zac Efron's Pool Party) has made repeated attempts to try to rebrand ... More >>

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  Jeff Bridges' Voice Removed From Oscar Telecast

  published Mar 01, 2010

  Expect to see frequent cutaways to Best Actor Oscar favorite and frequent corporate pitchman Jeff Bridges on Sunday night's telecast, but be prepared to hear less of him than usual for prime time TV. ... More >>

• Cop Out: That's Police Entertainment!

  published February 26, 2010

  It doesn't take long for Kevin Smith's Cop Out to establish its movie lineage. The film's opening shot, set to the... More >>

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  Hollywood Stock Exchange Becomes Actual Stock Exchange

  published Feb 24, 2010

  Gather round, kids, as Mommy tells you a story about Ye Olde Internet. Back in the heady Web 1.0/"e-commerce" days, people cared about a website called Hollywood Stock Exchange, which offered a kind o... More >>

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  Can George Lopez Politically Correct Speedy Gonzalesr

  published Feb 24, 2010

  TV star George Lopez and his wife/producing partner Anna Lopez are collaborating with the guys who wrote the Garfield movies on a "live-action/CG hybrid" Speedy Gonzales feature. George will voice t... More >>

• A Very Special Episode Evening

  published Feb 23, 2010

  With the recent disappearance of Andrew Koenig--AKA Boner from Growing Pains--'80s TV has surely been on all of our minds lately. What a golden era it was, when actual teenagers could learn life les... More >>

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  SHOWGIRLS 2: It's real, and the trailer is NSFW batshit insane.

  published Feb 22, 2010

  Last fall, word started to spread on the interwebs that an unknown German director named Marc Vorlander was planning to make a sequel to Showgirls, the Paul Verhoeven's 1995 trashterpiece, beloved by ... More >>

• Fashion, Class, and the Sex Bomb of the 1920s

  published Feb 19, 2010

  Flapper fans won't want to miss this event Sunday afternoon: the American Cinematheque is hosting a lecture by Joan Renner, "an expert on vintage cosmetics ephemera," on the social and culture history... More >>

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  Shutter Island's Source Material on YouTube

  published Feb 18, 2010

  Martin Scorsese's visually spectacular psychological noir Shutter Island, opening in theaters tomorrow, was technically based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, but its real inspiration seems to be the thri... More >>

• October Country: Days of the Living Dead

  published February 18, 2010

  The white, lower-class, upstate–New York dead end of Mohawk Valley is surely not the milieu metal front man Al... More >>

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  Will Work For Food, and/or German Eroticar

  published Feb 16, 2010

  This just in from Cinefamily's Facebook page: show up tonight at their Silent Movie Theater basecamp after 9:30, help fold the new Cinefamily programs, and enjoy free pizza and a midnight screening of... More >>

• Valentine's Day Massacre: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

  published February 11, 2010

  In Pretty Woman, director Garry Marshall’s personal cinematic pinnacle, the opening credits close (and the closing credits open)... More >>

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  Sundance's Rebel Yell

  published February 5, 2010

  On a frigid Sunday night at the end of the Sundance Film Festival's first weekend, a massive, mostly female crowd braved the... More >>

• Depeche Monde

  published January 28, 2010

  Music docs often punk those who take cultural consumption too seriously, turning fans into freaks for loving so hard. The... More >>