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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2011 Stories by Karina Longworth

• The Iron Lady Review

  published December 29, 2011

  In the first scene of The Iron Lady, which reteams director Phyllida Lloyd with her Mamma Mia! star Meryl Streep,... More >>

• Angelina Jolie Directs In the Land of Blood And Honey

  published December 22, 2011

  It's 1992, and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) and Danijel (Goran Kostic) are about to hook up at a Bosnian nightclub when they're interrupted by a bomb... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  L.A. Weekly's Top 10 Films of 2011

  published December 22, 2011

  Margaret, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me), starring Anna Paquin with key supporting... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  10 Movies We're Excited About in 2012

  published Dec 21, 2011

  We know -- you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of other movies whose marketing campaigns have not inundated us wit... More >>

• Jonathan Gold, Benicio Del Toro, Spike Jonze, No Age at Cinefamily's Fantastic, Elastic 24-Hour Telethon

  published December 15, 2011

  Cinefamily's Fantastic, Elastic 24-Hour Holiday Telethon, beginning at noon on Saturday and extending until the following day, was modeled... More >>

• Sex Workers Circa 1900: Bertrand Bonello's House of Pleasures Reviewed

  published December 15, 2011

  Early on in Bertrand Bonello's haunting, darkly gorgeous new film, House of Pleasures, a client of the titular... More >>

• Roman Polanski's Carnage Reviewed

  published December 15, 2011

  Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play Carnage stars Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet as... More >>

• We Need to Talk About Kevin Review

  published December 8, 2011

  In Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian's worst nightmare. Forced to give up her... More >>

• Madonna's W.E. Reviewed

  published December 8, 2011

  W.E. is the second feature film credited to former MTV queen Madonna, and the second film in 12 months, after The King's... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published December 1, 2011

  The Sunset 5, the art-house multiplex on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights that was once ground zero for L.A. cinephilia, was... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published November 24, 2011

  Thurs., Nov. 24 While most local repertory houses are dark tonight, Cinefamily is throwing a party featuring a potluck... More >>

• Rampart Review

  published November 24, 2011

  Directed by Oren Moverman (The Messenger) from a script by Moverman and L.A. noir master James Ellroy, Rampart tracks the... More >>

• Hugo Review

  published November 24, 2011

  Martin Scorsese's first foray into big-budget family filmmaking — as well as his inaugural effort in 3-D — Hugo is an... More >>

• My Week With Marilyn Review

  published November 24, 2011

    We get the escapism we deserve, I guess: Just as 1930s Hollywood distracted Depression-era audiences with glitzy Fred and Ginger... More >>

• Garbo: The Spy Review

  published November 24, 2011

  Having barely escaped a bungled attempt to cross lines during the Spanish Civil War, Spanish man-of-mystery More >>

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  COVER STORY

  LACMA Goes Hollywood With Elvis Mitchell

  published November 17, 2011

  The burger at Ray's, the Kris Morningstar–cheffed, Renzo Piano–designed restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, comes... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published November 17, 2011

  Thurs., Nov. 17 Two extremely different but equally must-see utopian parables are wrapping up their local runs after... More >>

• Dragonslayer review

  published November 10, 2011

  Dragonslayer is a lyrical and formally audacious documentary portrait of Josh “Skreech” Sandoval, 23-year-old wastoid... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published November 10, 2011

  Thurs., Nov. 10 AFI Fest wraps up tonight. The closing-night film, Steven Spielberg's The... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published November 3, 2011

  Thurs., Nov. 3 Many of the repertory events happening around town this week as AFI counterprogramming could be... More >>

• AFI Film Festival 2011: This Is Not a Film

  published November 3, 2011

  Billed as "an effort by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb," this 75-minute video diary documents a day in the life of Iranian filmmaker... More >>

• Joe Swanberg's Full Moon trilogy

  published November 3, 2011

  Eyes rolled in some cinephile circles when AFI announced that its festival program would include a three-film section called "Spotlight on Joe... More >>

• AFI Film Festival 2011: Melancholia

  published November 3, 2011

  When Kirsten Dunst was awarded the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her turn as a manic-depressive ad woman/bride in Lars Von... More >>

• AFI Film Festival 2011:ALPS and Attenberg

  published November 3, 2011

  "I hate it when people talk about 'Greek films,' like they're all the same," Athina Rachel Tsangari told me in September, over drinks at the... More >>

• Dragonslayer: Interview With Director Tristan Patterson

  published November 3, 2011

  "I'd heard that Rikk Agnew, the guitarist from the Adolescents, was, like, going to be playing the driveway at this house party in Chino. It... More >>