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

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published October 27, 2011

  Thurs., Oct. 27 One of the more interesting events included in the first slate of Film Independent programming... More >>

• Hipsters Review

  published October 27, 2011

  "Every hipster is a potential criminal," warns a student communist in Valery Todorovsky's musical period piece Hipsters. These... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published October 20, 2011

  Thurs., Oct. 20 Postwar British crime flick enthusiasts, prick up your ears: Tonight's the last night to catch the... More >>

• The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) Review

  published October 13, 2011

  The mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein's claim to "know what it... More >>

• Footloose Review

  published October 13, 2011

  Footloose, starring dancer Kenny Wormald and directed by Craig Brewer, is an extraordinarily faithful remake, recycling four songs... More >>

• The Skin I Live In Review: Pedro Almodovar's Plastic Surgeon-as-Mad Scientist Movie Starring Antonio Banderas

  published Oct 13, 2011

  The morality of the mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein's hubristic claim to "know what it feels like to be God," to Jurassic... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published October 13, 2011

  Thurs., Oct. 13 The new Film Independent screening series at LACMA, curated by controversial film... More >>

• George Lucas, John Baldessari, and Kenneth Anger Walk Into a Bar ...

  published October 13, 2011

  In 1967, USC student George Lucas was one of four young filmmakers assigned to make a documentary short on the Arizona set of MacKenna's... More >>

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  Footloose Review: A Film to Help Mothers Teach Daughters to Date Studious, Drug-Free Gymnasts Over Stoned, Sleazy Older Dudes

  published Oct 12, 2011

  In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose -- starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross -- along with its contemporary, Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let'... More >>

• The Swell Season Review

  published October 6, 2011

  This tour doc—shot in moody, close-up-heavy black-and-white—traces a few years on the road with Glen Hansard and Markéta... More >>

• The Ides of March Review

  published October 6, 2011

  A procedural on the political manipulation of medium and message, George Clooney's fourth directorial effort is bookended with scenes of... More >>

• El Bulli: Cooking in Progress Review

  published September 29, 2011

  Molecular gastronomy rock star Ferran Adrià’s Catalonian culinary paradise El Bulli is due to serve its last meal on July 31, the... More >>

• Sarah Palin: You Betcha! Review

  published September 29, 2011

  Sarah Palin: You Betcha! is Nick Broomfield's attempt to, as he puts it, "find out about the real Sarah from the people who know her... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published September 29, 2011

  Thurs., Sept. 29 We Were Here, David Weissman's landmark documentary on the early days of... More >>

• Lonergan's Margaret Finally Makes It to Big Screen

  published September 29, 2011

  Shot in 2005 — lead actress Anna Paquin, now 29, credibly plays a 17-year-old — Margaret was delayed first by the editing... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published September 22, 2011

  Thurs., Sept. 22 A truly historic event tonight at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater: the "re-premiere" of the... More >>

• Chick Strand at REDCAT

  published September 22, 2011

  When she died in 2009, filmmaker Chick Strand — co-founder of the San Francisco underground distributor Canyon Cinema, who broke new... More >>

• Toronto International Film Festival: A Fest Without a Frontrunner

  published September 22, 2011

  No major star was born at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, which ended Sept. 18, and — in a big departure from recent... More >>

• Toronto Film Festival: Moneyball and the Fetishizing of Spreadsheets

  published Sep 15, 2011

  "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," admits Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics played, in career-best form, by Brad Pitt in Bennett Millers' Moneyball.This line, from... More >>

• 1991: Nirvana Documentary Captures the Band Moments Before They Broke

  published September 15, 2011

  When Dave Markey flew from LAX to Heathrow with the three young, scrappy guys set to open for Sonic Youth on the European-festival leg of the... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published September 15, 2011

  Thurs., Sept. 15 Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life ends its runs in Pasadena and Encino tonight. And two... More >>

• Toronto Film Festival: Bad Romance From Whit Stillman, Alexander Payne and More

  published Sep 12, 2011

  Tragic romance is a big TIFF theme this year. Soured love tied to death and/or suicide and/or beautifully-lit misery has popped up in eight of the nine films I've seen since I last blogged. At the fe... More >>

• Sarah Palin & Captial Punishment in New Films By Broomfield and Herzog in Toronto

  published Sep 10, 2011

  Friday was Foreign-Born Documentary All-Stars Tackle Powerful Symbols of America day at TIFF. The scarily prolific Werner Herzog (whose first foray into 3-D, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, premiered at th... More >>

• Toronto Film Festival: Jafar Panahi's This is Not a Film and Why That Title is Both Right and Wrong

  published Sep 09, 2011

  TIFF 2011's opening night festivities were emblematic of the Festival's sometimes chaotic diversity. While a press screening of the highly-anticipated Moneyball and the world premiere of Davis Guggen... More >>

• Toronto Film Festival: Todd Solondz's Dark Horse and What it Says About Contemporary Jewish Angst

  published Sep 09, 2011

  "We're Jews, and Jews we shall always be." So a main character warns of the us-vs-them difference that would define the first half of the 20th century, in A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg's per... More >>