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

• Jared Leto's Lost Film

  published June 23, 2011

  A special effects–heavy sci-fi epic full of young A-list (well, maybe B-plus-list) stars, budgeted at $58 million, making... More >>

• L.A. Film Fest 2nd Weekend Picks

  published June 23, 2011

  In its second weekend, the festival is presenting previews of a number of high-profile indies that are set to premiere theatrically later this... More >>

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  Bad Teacher Review: You Want Raunchy Comedy Starring Womenr Be Careful What You Wish For

  published Jun 21, 2011

  From Tad Friend's New Yorker profile of Anna Faris (which Jezebel.com reblogged under the headline "Hollywood Insiders Admit Hollywood Hates Women") to the glass-ceiling-shattering pressure assigned ... More >>

• L.A. Film Fest Opens With Richard Linklater's Bernie: Like Christopher Guest Doing Errol Morris Doing Fargo

  published Jun 17, 2011

  Ah, LAFF opening night. More or less settled in to its LA Live homebase in its second year there (I mean, I was able to pick up my pass, get into the screening and transition to the afterparty comple... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List: Bergman, Brits and Zombies

  published June 16, 2011

  Fri., June 17Brush up on your Bergman at the New Beverly this weekend. Wild Strawberries, Bergman’s languid parable... More >>

• City of Life and Death Review

  published June 16, 2011

  An historical epic in the form of a gut punch, Lu Chuan's City of Life and Death, a harrowing dramatization of the... More >>

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  Green Lantern Review: The Power of Ryan Reynolds' Abs

  published Jun 15, 2011

  It's 10 minutes before a human character appears on-screen in Green Lantern, a personality-free franchise-launcher that builds toward a quaint, if explosive, argument in favor of the nebulous qualit... More >>

• Another Trip: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published June 9, 2011

  Thurs., June 9 Before you see Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom's The Trip, opening this... More >>

• Steve Coogan Interview

  published June 9, 2011

  Steve Coogan sells himself with disclaimers. He's calling from New York to talk about his new film, The Trip, which... More >>

• Soft-core, Pee-Wee, Cave in 2-D: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  published June 2, 2011

  Thurs., June 2In Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria, screening tonight at the Aero (7:30 p.m.),... More >>

• Beginners: Interview With Director Mike Mills

  published June 2, 2011

  "OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in... More >>

• Tim Burton and Ed Wood at LACMA

  published May 26, 2011

  If an auteur's body of work is defined by the outliers — the films that seem to bend the strictures of a director's... More >>

• Cannes Wrap: Melancholia's Battle With The Tree of Life Overwhelms the Festival

  published May 26, 2011

  After a week at the Cannes Film Festival, I left the south of France on Thursday morning fully aware that I would likely miss... More >>

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  Rapture at Cannes: The Twisted Poetry of Lars von Trier's "I am a Nazi" Scandal

  published May 20, 2011

  After a week at the Cannes Film Festival, I left the south of France on Thursday morning fully aware that I would likely miss something major. The world's premiere showcase of top-shelf auteur cinem... More >>

• Cannes 2011: Karina Longworth's 21 Films Ranked From Worst to Best

  published May 19, 2011

  CANNES, FRANCE -- Thanks to the idiosyncrasies of Air France's pricing schedule, I am departing Cannes on Thursday morning, before the premieres of some of the festival's most anticipated titles -- i... More >>

• Midnight in Paris Review

  published May 19, 2011

  A nebbishy screenwriter who longs to publish a novel, Gil (Owen Wilson) is tentatively working on a book set in a nostalgia shop... More >>

• Cannes 2011: White People Fucking and Team Tree of Life

  published May 17, 2011

  CANNES, FRANCE -- I saw Tree of Life on Monday morning when everyone else saw Tree of Life, but instead of writing about it right away, I went straight into a screening of Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan.... More >>

• Cannes 2011: Law and Order: SVU Meets In the Loop, and What a Bad Year it is to be a Kid

  published May 16, 2011

  Cannes, France -- My week in Cannes is just about half over, and while I haven't yet seen a film that I would champion without reservation, there have been a few near misses. Gerardo Naranjo is a he... More >>

• Cannes 2011: Teenage Death Trip Double Feature

  published May 12, 2011

  My Cannes 2011 began with a kind of American teenage death trip double feature: the world premieres of Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Gus Van Sant's Restless. The non-linear Kevin,... More >>

• Love Exposure, A Serbian Film and the sex-negative genre film

  published May 12, 2011

  The era of pornsploitation is upon us. Two recent landmarks of international genre film are having their local debuts this... More >>

• Bridesmaids Review

  published May 12, 2011

  Bridesmaids is a high-profile test case. Directed by Paul Feig (a sitcom journeyman lovingly known as the creator of... More >>

• Stake Land Review

  published April 28, 2011

  Post-apocalypse slow-burner Stake Land, produced by Larry Fessenden, is Jim Mickle and Nick Damici's follow-up to the... More >>

• TCM Classic Film Festival: 12 Highlights

  published April 28, 2011

  BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956) Barbara Rush plays opposite James Mason in Nicholas Ray's most delirious... More >>

• Water for Elephants

  published April 21, 2011

  WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Water for Elephants falls in the grand line of star vehicles designed to pull back the curtain on... More >>

• Adam Curtis' It Felt Like a Kiss

  published April 21, 2011

  Rock Hudson. Saddam Hussein. Lee Harvey Oswald. Doris Day. Enos the Chimp. And everyone above level seven at the CIA.So... More >>